Questions tagged [code-example]
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Can (or should) I post Latex examples on TeX.SE?
I am currently working on a custom table for a friend of mine and that question came up to my mind: Should I post it on TeX.SE to hopefully help other people?
I didn't find a place to post Latex ...
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Feature request: Better support for copying code from question or answers
Often I'd like to compile code from tex.stackexchange or other sites to my machine and play around a bit with it. There are so many great answers here; there is so much great code in stack overflow, ...
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Why can't TeX.SE compile my TeX code?
(This might have been asked before, but I could not find it.)
A lot of questions and answers on this site have some piece of code (to be compiled with one of the standard engines) and a screenshot. ...
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Is TeXample site still alive? [closed]
I hope this is the right place to ask this.
Does anyone know what happened to TeXample?
I submitted a TikZ example one year ago, and it still hasn't appeared. The last examples were added in ...
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How Ethical is it to Use Actual Institution or Commercial Brand Names in Examples?
In some examples in the main forum, I have seen code examples which contain the following scenarios.
Using names of actual institutions, where the institution is no way a known-to-everyone one. Using ...
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New support package for MWEs
I often saw that MWEs which include images can be a little bit of a problem. There are no common images in the TEXMF tree which could be used. Even the famous PS tiger is not directly accessible. ...
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List of commonly available example images
Often one or more images are required in minimal working examples or as part of some example code of and answer to make it compile successful and/or give some nice visual result.
One problem is that ...
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Should minimal examples be completed for the submitter if they only provide a code excerpt?
We had a situation today regarding this question. (See also the timeline).
What happened:
The submitter asked a question with a code excerpt only, without making a compileable minimum working ...
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How do I mark inline code?
How do I mark my inline code in questions and answers, and how can I mark code in comments?
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Usage of the lipsum package in answers
I've notices several times people have been using \usepackage{lipsum} in answers as a space filler. While this is great for demonstration purposes when the document is going to be immediately ...
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Should minimal examples be required, or just encouraged, for questions to be answered?
I just asked a question in which I included a small excerpt of my code that wasn't a standalone example, but enough to see the context (at least I thought so). In a comment*, I was asked to provide a "...
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