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Where does the on/off-topic line lie for TeX-LaTeX?
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Is ghostscript related to TeX and friends?
Questions about software 'related' to TeX et al. are on-topic, while questions about unrelated software are not.
TeX-specific coding environments such as IDEs are on-topic, as are programmes such as ...
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Should the site scope be broaden to typesetting?
Tex is a notorious typesetting tool, but it's not the only one. I wonder why shouldn't the site scope be broaden to that? That includes:
Typesetting theories
Typesetting industry
Typesetting tools
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Posting Q and A on pandoc
I see quite some pandoc / Markdown questions recently. It fits the pipeline I use, so I'd like to share / post some questions with canned answers. However, no one asks me for that.
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Is Wikipedia <math> on topic?
Tex.sx has a tag for questions that is named wiki and currently has this description:
Topics linked to usage of TeX in wiki-type websites, such as Wikipedia.
Wikipedia (run by Wikimedia, running on ...
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TeX, TeX, and nothing else? [duplicate]
Background
I had a long-term personal questioning about the fact if Markdown + Mathjax (which is great on math.SE for example) could be one day derived into a typesetting tool for printed documents.
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Is a question on setting up a CTAN mirror on-topic?
I want to setup a CTAN mirror but didn't get far after reading https://www.ctan.org/mirrors/register/ . I'd like to post something like Idiots guide to setting up a CTAN mirror as a question on tex....
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How to flag a question concerning a software bug
How should I flag questions that are about software bugs only and, therefore, off-topic here?
I am a contributor to the JabRef reference manager and, thus, am following the JabRef tag on this site.
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Typesetting and typography related questions
Is it acceptable to ask general typesetting questions on TeX.SE, even if not TeX- or LaTeX-related? If not (or maybe even if so), is there another or a better place where such questions belong?
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Why not use Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I use HTML/CSS since 3 years and I used often Stack Overflow to solve problems about it. Anyway, I'm a beginner in LaTeX world and I discovered LaTeX site in Stack Exchange. I ask me, Why not use ...
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BibLaTeX Tutorial: May I show you my example *before* publishing it
I want to do a BibLaTeX tutorial (Video, YouTube) with a step-by-step explanation using TeXmaker and also the command line. Would it be appropriate to show you guys here my example before I do the ...
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Are "Is this good typography?" questions on topic?
Are questions along the lines of the following one on topic here?
Have look at these 1-3 sample pages of my document.
<sample pages as images>
<maybe some TeX code>
1. Is this ...
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Job advertising?
Is there an appropriate spot on here to advertise a latex-related job/commission? Alternatively, would it be appropriate to privately message some users and invite them to apply for a job/commission? ...
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Are questions using markdown with LaTeX allowed?
Using converters like Pandoc, it is possible to use a substantial amount of LaTeX in a markdown document and convert it to a PDF.
Are questions involving such use cases allowed on this site? And if ...
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Is a question regarding 'drawing packages with math support' acceptable?
I would like to ask if the following question is acceptable in our main site. It is directly related to LaTeX but it is not about it. I would like to ask it in our main site because I believe that ...
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To what extent are code-review-style questions welcome?
Being new to this stack, I'm curious whether the community welcomes questions that present a problem and (working) solution, and subsequently ask whether there are better alternatives to the approach ...
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