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Proposed new solution to having unwanted noise and unfairly exposed questions again after editing on this site as to not decrease the site quality.
The core problem is over-editing. It is best addressed by self-control of those doing the editing not by technical hurdles that can get in the way of legitimate edits and also can be worked around.
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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 been contributing to a userscript which adds side-by-side editing functionality to Stack Exchange. It can be toggled on and off by clicking a new button in the editor and works when writing new ...
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Is possible to use a spoiler for a list in a question of a proof?
This is from the link in The Amplitwist's comment. The following mix of spoilers with HTML
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Bringing the new feature to MSE in order to make writing formulas easier
The choice how to enter formulas is a matter of taste. For example, since I have years of experience using LaTeX, by far the easiest way for me is to enter the formula in MathJax. I remember some ...
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How can I deactivate the Ctrl+M shortcut in the editor?
Rob W's answer on Meta Stack Exchange contains a bookmarklet and a user script to disable all of the keyboard shortcuts in the editor.
The answer explains the methodology of the user script, but as ...
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Let's get MathOverflow's "Citation Helper" here, too!
example citation
G. A. Edgar, Transseries for beginners, Real Anal. Exchange 35 (2010), no. 2, 253--309.
(I searched using the title, and it found the reference for me.)
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MathJax editing updates beta
For offline editing on OS X,
for math.SE,
I am using MacDown
from
http://macdown.uranusjr.com/.
I find this extremely useful.
I can grab an in-process answer
on math.SE, continue with
MacDown offline,...
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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?
Here is a userscript that I found in StackApps which was created partly by Antonio Vargas that enables side-by-side editing. This userscript adds a button to the editor toolbar ('Toggle Side-By-Side ...
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Let's get MathOverflow's "Citation Helper" here, too!
Yes. Absolutely. There are already 39 posts that use citations without the helper, so I see no reason not to include it here too.
Please let me know if any problems arise as a result. (Though I don't ...
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MathJax WYSIWYG Editor
SaturnAPI offers side-by-side editing panel and preview like what you suggest. See this example: https://saturnapi.com/fullstack/equations-and-matrices
I am one of the devs for SaturnAPI, so feel ...
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Integration support for Mathcha
You asked, so here are my thoughts.
Site developers are at a premium. Too much to do, too few to do it all. This is reflected in various discussions on Meta SE, as I mentioned in Comments on this ...
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Request for changing post edit rules.
You are new here, so welcome to Meta Math.SE.
I've downvoted your post to show disagreement with your request. That is not a criticism of your post per se, just the way that voting on Meta expresses ...
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Mathjax rendering incorrectly in edit preview.
Following some more experimentation, I found that anything I edited on Main didn't render properly in Preview, and it didn't always work on meta either.
On a whim, I de-activated the LocalCDN plugin I ...
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Latex editor suggestion
I agree with the other answer and also recommend MathJax. I've built SaturnAPI to support MathJax (along with Octave and a bunch of others). Here is an example: https://saturnapi.com/fullstack/...
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MathJax: better way to prepare a Math.StackExchange question?
On the mac I use Macdown:
https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
The only problem I have
is that it sometimes hangs
with a spinning beachball.
It will continue after 10 or more seconds -
I just have to wait ...
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