Questions tagged [user-scripts]

For questions about various userscripts and bookmarklets.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
144 votes
5 answers
14k views

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 ...
Marc Gravell's user avatar
33 votes
2 answers
627 views

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'...
Alec Teal's user avatar
  • 5,505
31 votes
2 answers
2k views

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 ...
t.b.'s user avatar
  • 77.5k
28 votes
3 answers
1k views

A prototype for incremental preview updates

Overview 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 ...
Davide Cervone's user avatar
32 votes
3 answers
1k views

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 ...
Beni Bogosel's user avatar
  • 23.2k
15 votes
1 answer
583 views

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 ...
user190080's user avatar
  • 3,701
33 votes
0 answers
429 views

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 ...
Kasper's user avatar
  • 13.4k
25 votes
0 answers
474 views

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 ...
Davide Cervone's user avatar
20 votes
2 answers
406 views

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 ...
For the love of maths's user avatar
14 votes
1 answer
450 views

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 ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
95 votes
0 answers
868 views

An attempt to add real-time previewing for comments

Screenshot About 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 ...
Antonio Vargas's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
700 views

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 ...
Alex Youcis's user avatar
  • 53.2k