Questions tagged [user-scripts]
For questions about various userscripts and bookmarklets.
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Are there any tools to automatically correct math formulas?
I am a person who prefer standard formula, so I often edit the formula to make it look better. But I find most of the mistakes or malformedTeX writing have repeated pattern. For example: ...
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Is there some way to include some default text quickly in a post?
Question. Is there something which would make possible to quickly include predefined text in a new post I start writing. (For example, some bookmarklet for this - with a bookmarklet, one click could ...
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Is there any way to have comment templates whenever we are typing comments?
We already have a comment template thread but oftentimes it takes a long time to open meta, go to the question, wait for the page to load, scroll down to the correct comment and copy it, especially if ...
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Firefox plugin to show edit and preview panels side by side
I have installed a Firefox plugin many years ago that used Greasemonkey to allow to show editor and previewer panels side by side on MathExchange (maybe other Exchanges as well).
After I reset ...
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Block quotes visible for the color blind
I was just on the main site, tweaking my color settings, when I noticed that it may be difficult to see block quotes, which are a light palish color, against a white background. For the color blind, I ...
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Save the answer in TeX/PDF - revisioned
Some time ago, I used the Save as LaTeX script which was provided by the user who answered this question Save the answer in TEX?. It worked really well.
Unfortunately the user seems to have deleted ...
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MathJax editing preview improvements userscript
There have been a number of issues recently with how MathJax interacts with the editing preview code:
MathJax preview bug
MathJax not rendering in previews
Problems with losing MathJax formatting ...
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When asking/answering a question on this site; Is there a way to fix the page in place so that you only see the displayed output as you type?
I am a touch typist and would like to know if there exists a way to type a question\answer with all the necessary formatting without the page automatically scrolling back up to where you input the ...
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Users who run bots/have developed tools on math.SE
Are there any users who run bots/have developed interesting tools for math.SE?
Listing such tools in one post may be good in my opinion, and I am aware of one such user, Normal Human, and it took me ...
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An attempt to add real-time previewing for comments
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When writing a comment with a lot of formatting, especially one containing formulas, I often found myself pasting it into the "new answer" editor at the bottom of the page to see if ...
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Bookmarklet plugin to speed up LaTeX macro typing
I've developed a little tool that assists in writing LaTeX macros. It works the same as the OSX press and hold accent picker. You press a key, and then there will appear a pop menu, with symbols ...
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Way to make \spec a command
I hope this hasn't been previously asked. There are certain symbols that are used very, very often on math.se for which there isn't a preprogrammed TeX command for. The ones that jump immediately to ...
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Feature request - but it woudn't be a feature, it'd be a blessing - editing panel and preview side-by-side - fighting lag on large answers!
I've only done a few questions here but already it's grinding on me. Why can't we have the writing-answer panel and the preview panel side by side, rather than below, this means for big answers I can'...
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A prototype for incremental preview updates
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StackExchange's live-preview-with-$\rm\LaTeX$-support gives you the ability to see your mathematics properly typeset as you compose your post, but it has some drawbacks (as everyone who has ...
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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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Writing answers works very slow
I don't know if this is a bug. Maybe it's just my operating system (ubuntu 10.10), computer, or browser(Mozilla 3).
As of yesterday, I can write answers very hard. I noticed that before, the latex ...
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Should chat have TeX support?
OK, so chat is now available... but; it has been suggested that for Mathematics we should have TeX support.
The current TeX processing has some non-trivial client impact. Before I even attempt trying ...
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