Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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etiquette when it comes to providing credit for useful posts on TeX.SE, if they show up a lot in your work
this is my first question on the Meta, so I apologize if it may not be entirely relevant.
Suppose you are a LaTeX Editor working for/under someone, and in your role as a LaTeX Editor - in addition to ...
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TeX StackExchange search tool question
I see that some questions on the TeX StackExchange don't have any tags. How can i use the integrated search tool to get all existing questions without any tags?
Thanks for your help.
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Does it have added value to add alt text to a screenshot?
Stack Exchange allows users that add an image to a post to enter an alt text. When uploading an image the following markdown is inserted:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
[1]: https://i....
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How to upload/share source files to StackExchange?
I wrote MS Word macros for word-to-latex and latex-to-word conversion. Is there standard scheme to share source files? Thank you in advance!
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How to refer to THIS website?
I would like to thank this community in my masters thesis for your help with complex formatting i Latex, because I have used it extensively and for relatively hard problems. You guys always seem to ...
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Should the site scope be broaden to typesetting?
Tex is a notorious typesetting tool, but it's not the only one. I wonder why shouldn't the site scope be broaden to that? That includes:
Typesetting theories
Typesetting industry
Typesetting tools
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When are big-list questions not opinioned-based?
The question Are there visual illustrations on the struggle of Word on formatting in comparing with LaTeX? is closed for being opinion-based. How is it be different to the rest of big-list questions?
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Question unreasonably marked as dupe
Today I asked:
File `perpage.sty' not found. \MakePerPage
and with the help of a commenter, answered it.
A while later, the question was marked as a dupe of
How do I install an individual package ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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What is unclear about my question?
This question of mine was just closed as unclear. I haven't really received any feedback as to what people find unclear. One user said they didn't understand the question and suggested to rework the ...
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AI-generated content policy banner in answers. Do we want them?
There was a recent "poll" here on Meta.TeX.SE asking about the use of generative AI in answers. Read all about it here:
Should AI answers be banned?
The results from that discussion were ...
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Why this one of my answer is removed:: "Could not start the command:" probably because the filename has two spaces?
In This post on the solution of "Could not start the command:", I wrote the answer:
Another probable situation is you (maybe unintentionally) typed two consecutive spaces ' ' in the file ...
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Should a question be closed for being off topic if it has an accepted answer that is on topic?
Consider EB Garamond percentage glyph
The closing message says that the comments should explain why the question was closed. I don't think they do.
One could argue that the question as formulated is ...
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Should a question be closed based on a comment of the OP, when the best answer is not covered by the duplicate?
When search for a problem of my latex file, I found the answer in this question: ! LaTeX Error: File `IEEEtran.cls' not found
The highest voted answer solved my problem precisely, and apparently ...
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Better experience on this website - Copying code to clipboard
This site is missing an important feature: a button for copying LaTeX code and co to the clipboard.
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