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We should have MathJax. What should the escape sequence be?
All right, it's time for everyone's favorite post: the list of posts that would benefit from MathJax! The Stack Exchange team looks for posts that would benefit by having MathJax (they want to make ...
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We should have MathJax. What should the escape sequence be?
Yes
And, the default escape-sequence for MathJax on SE is to use a $, like $log(n)$ ....
Should this be changed (like it is on ...
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What should the MathJax delimiter be?
The escape sequence should be $.
$ is what people who already know (La)TeX use. Even more importantly, ...
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Why is this particular string of numbers too far to the left?
It was interpreted as Markdown for an ordered list with one list item numbered 110101. I can replicate this below as such:
List?
Ha
Note that setting the start number like this isn't a typical ...
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We should have MathJax. What should the escape sequence be?
I didn't even think it would even be an issue, so I didn't post earlier, but…
The escape sequence should be $.
$ is what ...
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Color of the blockquote boxes just changed
Unfortunately, this is not a bug but an intended feature, supposedly an "improvement", recently rolled out across the entire SE network:
Some improvements to blockquotes
You can support this ...
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What is "kbd"? A grey tag?
It's not part of Markdown; it's one of the few HTML tags that are also supported on Stack Exchange.
The tag defines a keyboard input. The tag is used when it is necessary to display a text that the ...
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We should have MathJax. What should the escape sequence be?
Riddle me this:
\$
\begin{array}{l|l|l}
\text{Site} & \text{Puzzling} & \TeX - \LaTeX & \text{Math} \\
\hline
\text{MathJax} & \text{True} ...
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Spoiler Tags not working in answer that contains Right-To-Left (Hebrew) text
I fixed it for you by adding <P> tags.
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A table bug I just encountered
This is a known bug
If you have text right above or below the table, the preview renders the table markdown as a table. But after you save the post, the table is not rendered and just shows the ...
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What is "kbd"? A grey tag?
It may look like a button to you, but as you've seen it's not clickable and should not be used to try to represent a button in a user interface. It's supposed to look like a keyboard key. So you might ...
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We should have MathJax. What should the escape sequence be?
Even if it isn't necessary, it will be very nice. The symbol I may miss most is the times sign-in my answer here about sudoku, I find 9 x 9 ugly, while $9 \times 9$ is much more elegant. Yes, you ...
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