Formatting is the process, to emphasize, layout and decorate a text for a better user-experience.
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Comment text truncated in timeline
The comment text in the timeline view (mod only) seems to be truncated on the right when the text is long enough to wrap. It looks as if the line width is miscalculated.
The source comments that ...
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Square Brackets are not displaying correctly.
I would like to put $c_{i,j}$ into stretchy square brackets [] but it keeps giving me the floor function brackets for some reason.
\left[ c_{i,j} \right] = ...
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MathJax makes preview flicker
When using quite some TeX (or using a slow computer), every time the preview of the post you're writing is updated (and MathJax reloads), the preview flickers. This is getting very annoying.
It's a ...
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What is the best way to write an arbitrary multi-variable function?
I have been a bit confused for a while on what is the best way to write a multi-variable function of an arbitrary number of input variables when writing a question or answer. My first thought is to ...
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Annoying inability to format things
Recently a change has made
**Theorem** adsfdf
*proof*: asdfdsaf
comes out as
Theorem adsfdf
proof: asdfdsaf
rather than having a line break between them.
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Was the font for TeX commands change? [closed]
In my opinion the font looks like Times and not like CM as before.
Commands like \sum for example are producing different kind of serifs.
Was the font change or ...
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Editing formulas with Unicode symbols
Should the questions with Unicode symbols in formulas be edited?
I'm asking this based on this question. Look in the source code (by edit button) to see what I ...
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Local changing of MathJax font
I'm preferring the STIX font for rendering the MathJax formulas. But in the Math.SE there are the TeX font set as preferred.
Is there any way to make local use ...
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fix or explain?
When I encounter an unformatted or badly formatted post, I usually leave a comment such as this one explaining how to fix the problems rather than fixing them myself. This is not just because I don't ...
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Carets stop hyperlinks working.
The caret symbol, ^, stops hyperlinks working, a phenomenon usually seen in links to Wolfram Alpha.
The [description](hyperlink) form:
this works, produced by [this ...
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From where can I get all mathematical formatting syntaxes supported here?
Looks like I can post mathematical notations here without glitch. I want to know all syntaxes for that. Is it documented? Is it all old Matlab?
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MathJax fails when rendering long digit strings on iOS
This answer formats properly on Safari 5.1.7 on Lion, but on the iPad with iOS 5.1 the √2+6/√2=2.638958433764... does not format properly and I only see the MathJax, i.e. \$\sqrt{2}+\frac{\sqrt{6}}{2} ...
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Does this question seem to have formatting problems in Safari?
A few minutes ago, a user reported in a moderator flag that this question is not displaying correctly:
The whole page (questions, answers, and comments) has formatting problems. Something weird is ...
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Latex on Individual User Profile
I'm wondering that if we are allowed to use the Latex Typesetting Language on our individual user profiles since it sounds quite fun actually? :)
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Linebreaks in comments don't seem to be working
The help page says:
End a line with two spaces to add a <br/> linebreak
But I did that in my comment here and I do not see any sort of break.
What's ...
