You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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where is the latex reference please
hi,
There is a nice pretty markdown ref but no simple quick latex reference. I looked around in the faq and on meta.
I also googled for some latex reference and some of it looks slightly different ...
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TeX math markup is sorely needed
This site is going to need TeX markup to express mathematical symbols and formulas well.
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Feature request: user script or option to turn off instant MathJax rendering
In view of the nearly unbearable slowdowns I experience while composing answers (both in Safari 5 and Firefox 5 on OS X 10.6.7) since June 21/22 I would most welcome a possibility ...
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Please enable AMSsymbols extension for MathJax
Please enable the AMSsymbols extensionfor MathJax. The lack of this extension has led to several independent bug reports.
The \not\mid symbol is not working well
Tex \implies symbol does not work
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Retagging causes bumping
The issue of questions bumping after retagging has come up here and on the main meta.
I have a specific suggestion: disable bumping for users with high enough reputation (10k, 15k or 20k), or at ...
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Ping only works for the first @
I have come up against this "feature" several times now, and almost everybody appears to be unaware of it. Only the first ping functions in a comment. I understand that this is by design, but ...
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What is a good standard for publishing a reference to a stackexchange thread?
In the discussion "Research which began at the website", we wondered what the best way to publish a reference to a stackexchange discussion thread.
Presumably it would be the publication's standard ...
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Automatic Community-wikification of very long answers with lots of edits
I ended up doing a heavy rewrite of my answer on center-commutator subgroup duality because I was unsatisfied with the flow of it. This pushed the answer beyond the 10 edit limit which turned it into ...
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Feature request: hide specific questions
I don't know when this happened, but the rate at which questions are being asked seems to have increased dramatically relative to the last time I frequently browsed math.SE. It is getting hard to ...
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Identifying a “dis-accepted” answer
When you click on the "envelope" next to your name on the top of the page, you get a summary of the recent changes. Clicking on the "Reputation" tab will tell you the up and down votes on your ...
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Flagging questions as off-topic
When flagging a question as off-topic we are given a choice between either completely off-topic, belongs to meta, or belongs to stats.SE.
Is it possible to add another option "Belong elsewhere on the ...
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Mark problems as “notify me if answer is posted”?
I have found myself often finding interesting questions which I do not have the time to look into myself, but that I would very much like to see the answers to if someone else does. Unless I am ...
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Allow TeXification in <code> tags.
Some special characters, e.g. *, _ and \ have special meaning in Markdown syntax, but these ...
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Is it possible to convert (and possibly download) the answers/discussions in pdf format?
First of all, I don't know if this is not a place for asking this question or whether it has been asked (I have searched before posting). My apology is these cases.
I felt very often to save all ...
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Poll for MathJax macros that should be automatically loaded
Prompted by Geoff in comments to this question, I thought of creating a poll of sorts where we can propose macros/extensions that should be automatically loaded for our MathJax installation here. ...
