Issues of what is allowable or desirable in question titles.
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Title and $\LaTeX$
This is not a question. Just a request.
This Issue has been discussed previously and I think this can be implemented technically as well.
Writing title all in latex disables the options like "Open ...
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Retitling Questions: a modest proposal
I'd like to suggest that after a Question receives an Accepted Answer, some consideration be given to revising the title (if appropriate) to reflect what the real issue turned out to be.
It seems to ...
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Cannot open question that contains only formulas
On an iPad, when I press and hold on the title of a question that contains only formulas, such as this one, I get "Copy" instead of the usual "Open / Open in New Tab / ..." menu.
If I just tap on the ...
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Sacrificing the grammar of title of questions for clear visibility of relevance in related links on the side
Having seen many titles similar to
Help needed with P
How to Solve P
What is the best way of tackling P
A differential/Integral/Sum/Algebra question
etc. ( where P is latexified math part )
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making certain question types more searchable
Suppose someone wants help evaluating a complicated integral. Short of cramming the entire integral into the title, I'm not sure how a person can descriptively choose a title for the question. That is ...
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Increasing the 150 character limit for the the Titles to allow proper description of math in the question.
a not too long math formulae's that are required to be in the title to make the referring links meaning full rather than having content like :
"Odd sum problem" , "Interesting integral question" etc. ...
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Slightly more informative error messages
Titles are limited to 150 characters. This is a reasonable limitations, but with $\LaTeX$ one can easily go beyond that. Since it is impossible to a-priori judge the length of the compiled $\LaTeX$, ...
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How should multiple how-to questions' titles about the same topic differ?
Take a look at these two questions:
Proof of inequalities by induction
Mathematical induction in inequalities
Both of them are about the same topic (mathematical induction on inequalities). They ...
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Better title for “Real life and death issue…”
In r.e.:
Real life & death issue that requires a mathematical solution
I think it would be a good idea to give this a meaningful title.
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Should we retitle posts whose titles contain “interesting”?
Today I changed the title of the question "Interesting Mathematical Induction Series Proof" to the more informative "Induction proof of lower bound for $\sum \sqrt n$". It occurred to me that most ...
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Long and full of math titles
Is it right to have titles long and full of math, spanning on more than two lines, like this
Voyager mission polynomials. Prove that for any $p(x)$ ...
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More informative titles
Often when I see a question I think it's probably a duplicate of some earlier question, but it's hard to know. The software always suggests related questions, but that only helps if the titles are ...
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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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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on math.se, and found 81 pairs of questions with totally identical title. (Ordered pairs where id1 < id2, ...
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Retroactive automatic editing of question punctuation affecting correctness
The question formerly titled "Does Stirling's formula give the correct number of digits of n!?" is now titled "Does Stirling's formula give the correct number of digits of n?". This was not due to an ...
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How should we treat subjective titles?
One big problem that can plague Q&A sites is the subjectivity within the variety of topics. In our community one person might find it interesting to deal with algebraic geometry, while another ...
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Editing title results in unwanted “bump” …
I was looking at my old questions and noticed that some TeX in one of my titles was not entered correctly. I fixed it... and to my dismay the question is now on the front page. I'm concerned that this ...
