9 votes

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 ...
Antonio Vargas's user avatar
8 votes

Is it possible to spoiler multi-line mathjax?

If you ever want to do such, I would recommend the alternative format: >! \begin{align} a=b \\ b=c \\ c=d \end{align} This allows multiple lines, as well as ...
Simply Beautiful Art's user avatar
7 votes
Accepted

Table rendering in preview but not in finished post

Adding an extra empty line after the colon has fixed the problem. I am not sure why this works but have seen this before.
Dietrich Burde's user avatar
7 votes

Answer preview in MSE not appearing

This is the (deprecated) mobile web version of the site; it does not have a preview when editing posts. To switch back to the full version, click the 'full site' link in the footer. It seems you have ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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5 votes
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Viewing markup of question/answer/comment, of one for which is editing is not allowed.

For posts you can go first to revision history of the specific post. And after that click on view source. This was suggested in this answer: Can you copy paste tex code from the question without going ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
5 votes

Table rendering in preview but not in finished post

Dietrich's suggestion in the comments also got me to a more central post at meta: Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header
5 votes

Is it possible to spoiler multi-line mathjax?

This will be fixed in the next build. When doing a preview, transformations are run on the rendered HTML, looking for a ! at the beginning of lines in a ...
Brian Nickel's user avatar
5 votes
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MathJax very slow in questions that are closed

This is fixed. What went wrong? When we insert an editor into a page on a site that includes MathJax, we inject some JavaScript that looked like this: ...
Brian Nickel's user avatar
4 votes

How do I preview my post before posting?

There is no "preview button". Just to confirm information in the comments, and to check whether asking a question presented an issue with respect to seeing a preview, I posted the following "example ...
amWhy's user avatar
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3 votes

MathJax preview does not work when editing from review (or when editing a deleted question)

The problem seems to be that the MathJax editing code is not loaded in review or on deleted question pages. This, in turn, seems to happen because those pages are missing the following inline ...
Ilmari Karonen's user avatar
3 votes
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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 ...
BLAZE's user avatar
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2 votes

Edit preview window is not displayed, possibly IP specific

Thanks to Martin's link, I noticed the "show preview" button I don't know how the preview ever got into a hidden state, but now it works fine after re-enabling it. Unhiding it on one machine ...
Bill Dubuque's user avatar
2 votes

MathJax rendering in preview but not in actual post?

One way how this would happen is when you include $\DeclareMathOperator{\Hom}{Hom}$ or somthing similar at some point, yet then change your mind about it and ...
quid's user avatar
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2 votes

Font size in new theme?

We also have smaller text in the question lists. Here are three samples, and of course math.se is smallest...
GEdgar's user avatar
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2 votes

Is it possible to spoiler multi-line mathjax?

Good joke on me. Evidently the bug only affects the editing preview. When the post is actually posted, it appears as expected. (If you click "edit" on my question and look at the preview, you'll ...
Wildcard's user avatar
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1 vote
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MathJax renders badly when editing from Review Queue

Umm, yeah... that was probably my fault. At least some of it. What happened was that, about a year and a half ago, I added a client-side fix that disables display math in question lists into my SOUP ...
Ilmari Karonen's user avatar
1 vote

MathJax renders badly when editing from Review Queue

Perhaps the best way to reproduce the problem is by posting some of the problematic expressions in a CW-answer, and inviting the Community to edit them and Comment on their experiences. Since the ...
1 vote

Need preview windows on mobile platform

I found that preview is available on the full site, which can be accessed from a mobile device by tapping "full site" link in the footer. This is a test to see if the full site works ... $2+2=4$ ...
Oscar Lanzi's user avatar
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