Questions tagged [formatting]
Formatting is the process, to emphasize, layout and decorate a text for a better user-experience.
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Floor function for fractions [duplicate]
When using \rfloor and \lfloor function for fractions, we obtain the following unpleasant result
$$\lfloor \frac n2\rfloor$$
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Feature request: how to get non-confusing lists (numbered as well as bulleted)?
When typing a post, if you want to make a numbered list, this can be confusing when making lists for mathematical purposes, like the list of solutions of $x^2-3x+2=0$:
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Defining common sets for LaTeX mode
When one provides an answer that requires LaTeX, which is almost any answer, every time a set is used, it is necessary to fully type \mathbb{Z}. For example, $\...
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Why doesn't MathJax show up immediately?
When we reload a page with MathJax in it, the math format is like this for a second:
After a second it becomes the desired MathJax.
Is the intermediate format in Sans-Serif? Why doesn't MathJax show ...
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How to avoid draft formatting issues that are only solvable with a save of the question (before the question is finished for publication) [duplicate]
The solution for Firefox now is to install the SiteMacro Extension for (Ubuntu) Firefox, and to have the macro map to the edit button. Each time now that the site reloads, it automatically goes into ...
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I am having trouble formatting the formula for a quoted vector magnetic potential inside and outside a shell of radius R with charge density sigma
I am having trouble formatting the following formula as a reference to MSU's result for the magnetic field inside a spherical shell and the vector magnetic potential outside the magnetic shell.
The ...
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Having trouble formatting quotations that have $\pu{1.0 Kg}$ as an example or just going to the next line also
I was encountering a formatting issue when writing one of my articles here that I will try to reproduce and summarize here:
When I quote text and I want to embed units, I have formatting issues, ...
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Bug: Can't write matrices and newlines $\LaTeX$ in Tag Editor.
Problem: I can't write matrices and newlines with MathJax in $\LaTeX$ in the Tag Editor.
I've noticed on several SE pages that I can't write line breaks in MathJax. On some pages, an ...
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Piecewise Equation Formatting Issue in MathJax Preview
I am composing a question involving piecewise polynomial equations, but the preview formatting isn't coming out how I expect. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
The notation I'm using:
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Are there any symbol to make a "half-space" in MathJax? half the size of $\text{\,}$ approx $\text{\kern 0.08333em}$?
Are there any symbol to make a half-space in MathJax? half the size of $\text{\,}$ approx $\text{\kern 0.08333em}$ ?
If I write jointly the letter $\rho$ with the "letter C with undertext letter ...
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How to have multi-line pasted text show as multiple lines of text in mathjax.
The only way I know how to have multiline text "show" as multiline text is to add 4-5 leading spaces to each line of pasted text.
line 1
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New associated site. [duplicate]
Although I've not been active on Mathematics.se, on Physics from time to time, there are people enthusiastic about their new model, very often with an incoherent or incomplete proof.
I'm assuming ...
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Partial MathJaX editing
There was a (now-closed) question which was horribly formatted by the OP. I put in some initial formatting to show him what to do in order to make it more readable, but did not finish everything since ...
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Why does this produce math equations indented with grey bar?
By looking at the posts on Mathematics Stack Exchange I have figured out how to produce an inset of math equations, like this:
$S=\{1,2,3\ldots \text{ n for }n\in \mathbb{N}\}\\
Y_{i,j}=\{i|i\in \...
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Why Coloured parts of questions are removed?
Out of curiosity, after I learnt the use of mathjax if I thought necessary (obviously may be not for others) I use the $\color{red}{colour }$ code to mark any point of my question, but some users ...
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