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Draft function of a stand-by question
Does there exist a possibility on the site to save a draft of a question I am writing up, such that it will remain even if I leave the site but come back to it later?
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Is there any way (keyboard shortcut) to shift an enitre piece of text?
Okay I know I've worded the question horribly. We all know to make code visible in a box e.g:
\begin{document}
We have to shift it 4 spaces to the right so that it becomes:
\begin{document}
Is ...
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Asking a new questions opens and old question
I press on the Ask Question button. One of my old questions is exhibited.
Must I assume therefore, that if I edit the old question and press the Submit button, my old question will be substituted by ...
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How do I add 4 spaces to all the code when I want to ask a question?. Im doing it line by line(It take me a lot time) [duplicate]
I have a big code and need to ask about it. How in the space for the question do I avoid adding 4 spaces to each line. I need do it faster.
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How to make a text bigger in the body of a question
I know if I want to make italic some text in the body of my question I should put it between two *'s. Also if I want to make bold some text, I should put it between **'s.
How I can make some text ...
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How to ask further questions concerning an old question?
I asked a question (to be specific, this one) about four months ago and got a completely satisfying answer.
In the meantime I continued my project and built my own solution for the problem by ...
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New users - How to do good questions and answers?
I am a new user of tex.stackexchange.com and probably this could be a stupid question, but is there any information about how to pose good questions and make good answers?
I think it could be useful ...
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Is there a limit to the amount of questions one can post in a given time frame?
I am in the process of writing my thesis and have managed to run into a lot of issues along the way. To stop me procrastinating on tex.SX, I jot a note down at the time but don't actually post the ...
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What is does the "bonus" part of a question mean?
I sometimes stumble upon questions where some "bonus points" are mentioned or which have some "bonus section" (see e.g. here and here, and also in answers such as here). I only found information on ...
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How to create function Blocks in StackExchange questions?
As a French student living in the US, I'm using both QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards.
tex.stackexhange is a good website, but a problem comes when it's about asking questions.
Indeed, when I wanna use ...
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Asking specific person for answer or clarify his question in order to help me with my problem
I've asked a question which might be hard to answer because it's concerns right-to -left script which I guess is not the most often used by TeX users. :) The question is about sorting tools for Arabic ...
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How does one add a LaTeX output to a question/answer?
How does one add a LaTeX output* to a question/answer?
*the thing you see in the PDF/DVI when you compile the LaTeX code.
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Multiple questions or single question?
When working on a document, I often end up with multiple questions. Should I club all the related questions together and ask a single question or break them into separate questions. All the questions ...
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Detail in question changed after one answer already given; change question or new question?
For How do I draw a plot with a variable line width in pgfplots?, after answers and comments started coming in, I realised that I really want a continuous change in line width, and not a discrete one ...
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What does "XY Problem" mean?
I have just been told that my question is an "XY Problem". What does that mean? What am I supposed to do?
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