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### How to start new line on MSE?

There are three approaches for line breaks. As pointed out in the comments, Approaches 2 and 3 produce the same HTML output when rendered on the page. Approach 1: Press "Enter" twice Output: Hi ...
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### Would HTML/Unicode formatting cause troubles?

Although there are some great comments above, one thing no one has mentioned is people who use assistive technology like screen readers. Having the mathematics clearly marked as mathematics (as ...

### What to do with questions formatted exclusively with a piece of paper, a pen and a camera?

Some decide instead of typing the actual text of the question, typesetting formulae with LATEX and using plotting software, it would be better for them to avoid the effort Okay, hold on. You seem to ...
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### How to colour long sentences without causing them to overflow and exceed the page?

Simple solution: don't abuse MathJax to colour your text.
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### MathJax and the French notation for open intervals

Since my comment under the other answer got about three times more votes than the answer, maybe it's worth converting it into a full answer: The correct way would be, as far as I can tell, to convert ...
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### Transforming numbers in a matrix structure into color squares

You can do it, but you need to use large squares and hide their height and depth using \smash. It helps to use a definition or two. Here is one approach: ...

### Proper use of italics when asking a question.

Use mathjax for mathematics, not for text formatting. The mathjax italics happen because mathjax thinks "abcde" is just a string of variables.
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### Is coloring equations good practice or bad?

(I've never used Meta before -- I noted there's no answer yet, but a lot of comments, so I hope I'm not doing something wrong) To first give an example of what I would consider good coloring; I like ...
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### MathJax and the French notation for open intervals

Plain $\mathrm{\TeX}$ defines \mathcode$="405B \mathcode$="505D \delcode$="05B302 \delcode$="05D303 and $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$ does essentially the same. One ...
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### Can you use a smaller font?

As suggested in other posts about this issue, you can use <sup> or <sub>. It is probably not optimal, but at least ...
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### I can't write 'Hello!' at the beggining of the question

You are not supposed to write a greeting at the start of the question. There is a script in place that removes certain common forms of greetings (or at least what appears to be like one, there are ...
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