Formatting is the process, to emphasize, layout and decorate a text for a better user-experience.
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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 ...
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Why no use displaystyle in titles?
Why can't I use \displaystyle or $$ in titles? What's the problem?
I'm not sure if it's necessary to use in titles, but I am ...
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Can we enable other LaTeX formatting commands? Not just math?
How can I enable other LaTeX functions to write formatted answers here in Math.SE?
Tried, for example, to use an array
\begin{array}{cc}
\text{x[0]$\to $} & 1.000000000 \
\text{x[1]$\to $} ...
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Layout bug: question text overwrites answer preview window
Below is a screenshot showing a page layout bug. The trig expression displayed in the bottom of the preview window should not be there - it's part of the question - not part of my answer. Other ...
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Creating simple graphs
I've answered a question on the intuition behind the Arc Length formula.
I would really like to add a couple of simple pictures to illustrate the two distance computations. They would involve a ...
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Do we have an equation editing HOWTO?
I see other posters writing beautiful integrals and quotients within quotients and matrices and sigma summations and and and... is there a guide for that?
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When $\LaTeX$-ifying, please use stacked fractions
When editing the contents of a question to "$\LaTeX$-ify" it, especially if the question is of a pre-college (or non-math-major) level, please consider using stacked fractions (...
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Italics/emphasized text not working after a mathematical formula
In this post over here: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/11294/convergence-of-series-of-functions/11295#11295 i have noticed an error. When i put * a * the text doesn't turn italic, but its ...
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WYSIWYG for math formulas?
Is there any website or tool that allows you to create math formulas visually which can then be pasted on this website?
I'm looking for something like the equation editor in Microsoft Word or Google ...
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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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Allow TeXification in <code> tags.
Some special characters, e.g. *, _ and \ have special meaning in Markdown syntax, but these ...
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TeXification is too aggressive, or “How to enter a dollar sign?”
The current TeXification function is too aggressive. The current behavior is that,
any text between two dollar signs in a single element will be formatted as a TeX formula.
this excludes any ...
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Formatting Sandbox
Basically same as Formatting Sandbox in meta.SO, but since this and Statistical Analysis are the only 2 sites (I know) supporting TeX formatting, I believe we also need one here for testing it.
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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.
