Questions tagged [answers]
This tag is for questions about answers: how to answer, whether specific answers are appropriate, and so forth.
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AI-generated content policy banner in answers. Do we want them?
There was a recent "poll" here on Meta.TeX.SE asking about the use of generative AI in answers. Read all about it here:
Should AI answers be banned?
The results from that discussion were ...
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Why this one of my answer is removed:: "Could not start the command:" probably because the filename has two spaces?
In This post on the solution of "Could not start the command:", I wrote the answer:
Another probable situation is you (maybe unintentionally) typed two consecutive spaces ' ' in the file ...
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Tagging answers
What do you think about adding tags to answers?
E.g. for this one Songs Package lyrics printed in two columns, title and song information across the two columns I suggested switching the package used. ...
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Explanations on why my answer had been downvoted (and removed), but a similar one accepted? Things I can improve?
I saw this question a few days ago:
missing a tick label that has been named
I answered the following, and it got downvoted (3 times), then deleted:
Does this give what you want?
xtick = {-3.14, -1....
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How to get a more up-to-date answer to rise to the top?
The answers to this question about LaTeX support in OneNote have changed a lot since the question was asked, and since the currently accepted answer was chosen (accepted answer was written in 2011, ...
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Answering this 3-year-old closed question?
I recently found this question:
Parts of my text disappears!
I had the exact same problem in my document and also cannot upload a MWE.
Nonetheless, a comment to this question contained a "...
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Difference between “poor answer” and “answer does not attempt answering the question”
This question is based on this answer.
The corresponding question basically says: I want to draw this picture in tikz.
The answer basically says: Do not use tikz, but another program and then import ...
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When is a question upvoted?
It seems like questions are not upvoted sufficiently. In comparison, answers are.
Would it not be fair, to upvote questions automatically by counting the answers and comments, just to make clear, that ...
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a blinking arrow indicating a reply with more votes below
If the accepted answer to a question is very long, we need to scroll down whether the next reply has more votes or not. I would like to request SE software development team to add a blinking arrow ...
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How to animate a code created in LaTeX in an answer or a question
There are many questions where many users of TeX.SE insert not only a code and an image but also a corresponding animation without using LaTeX animation packages. My question is: what is the method to ...
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Answer deleted by moderator because "not good practice"
Today I noticed the following deleted answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/561476/ (only visible for >10k users because it is deleted). Screenshot:
The question was asking about how to change a ...
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Text line spacing for questions and answers
Just out of mere curiosity, but I wanted to know if the line spacing of the text has been increased because I didn't notice the difference this morning.
The image is taken from: Defining a bibstyle ...
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Link when referencing another answer
When editing this answer, I thought it would enhance readability/access when having
Since this question comes up so often, I thought I'd try to supplement
ArTourter's correct answer with a more ...
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Sorting answers in one question thread
The answers are typically sorted in each thread: accepted answer followed by answers sorted by the earned points. But my account has changed this feature a few days ago and I don't know how. Now, the ...
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Does adding an explanation in an edit make it "deviate from the intent"?
I suggested an edit to a question after it was suggested in another comment when I added some explanatory discussion.
However, the edit got rejected on the grounds of changing the intent, although I ...
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