Timeline for On using MathJax to create 'white space'
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| May 8, 2020 at 5:28 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
corrected minor typos (the question was bumped anyway)
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| May 7, 2020 at 14:51 | answer | added | Malcolm Anderson | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 9:10 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Jul 19, 2013 at 12:35 | comment | added | user9072 | Sorry for the bump! I was sure I had found another addition to this (I thought useful), tried to reproduce it for reference, but it failed so I delted it. | |
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| Jul 14, 2013 at 21:06 | comment | added | The User | I tried HTML comments, it did not work. Let me try instiki-comments: {: blabla } | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 20:42 | comment | added | user9072 | @TheUser: did you try a "spoiler"? It seemed so from the inbox, but not sure. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 20:24 | comment | added | The User | test test test test | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:56 | answer | added | Andrew Stacey | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:54 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | @quid I didn't know that my infamy was so well-known. I'll add the details to my answer. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:49 | comment | added | user9072 | Contrary to what I claim I still cannot actually do this, it was only copy paste. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:48 | comment | added | user9072 | I can. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:42 | comment | added | user9072 | @AndrewStacey: yes, I known! Somewhere else, just before starting this thread I mentioned you as leading expert in this craft. :-) But could you perhaps also share the knwoledge in an accesible way? | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:38 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | I can. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 19:35 | answer | added | Andrew Stacey | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 13:39 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | quid: thanks, that looks a lot clearer to me. Also: we agree that this 15 character thing is actually not a great idea, but I'm glad to have your insight on why it's there to begin with. Finally: I like this question, and hope that some clever person will provide a clever answer. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 13:31 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble: thank you for the feedback, I made an edit (I hope in the sense you intended). For (1): Okay. So: AFAIK, the intent the character limit is to encourage people to write longer and thus more informative comments. This does however not work so well, IMO, since there are numerous ways to get by the limit otherwise. Personnaly, I think this chracterlimit does more harm than good, while the orginal idea seems reasonable. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 13:23 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 13:19 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
reformulation and addition
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| Jul 14, 2013 at 12:11 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | quid: (1) there is no need to bring up the other thread. I operate on a case-by-case basis. (2) It seems to me the title could be "Bottom Line", and it would be clearer to replace the first few words "A simple solution could be that" by "Hopefully", since there is no solution described, whether with an indefinite or definite article. You want me to edit that? | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 9:58 | comment | added | user9072 | @GerryMyerson: Why should it be impossible to use the site if MathJax is processed improprely in the way I describe? I simply see the MathJax source with in most cases is easy enough to understand and not a distraction. For the slowness, please note that I said 'contributes to'. Finally a reason that might contribute to, beyond it being more frequent (if this is even true but I think it is), me noticing this more is that now it is also used on meta which is pretty free from any MathJax otherwise. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 9:46 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble: Also, I mentioned in comments another solutions using invisible characters. I guess somebody will provide the details in not too long (there is a nondetailed discussion of this on 'tea'). If not, as I said, I might look into that myself. I prefer not to answer your question why there is a limit since last time you got unhappy me explaining the rational of a design decision here. (But personally I do not need the limit as I said.) If you could suggest another headline, I will likely replace it. As is, it truly not clear what but 'could be a sol.' you prefer. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 9:36 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble: What heading would you prefer? It is formulated in the conditional and I say a not the. I am honestly suprised you still have an issue with that. But I am happy to change it. Also, I did not suggest that people not do it at all but just less often, and also restricted it to 'some' as I anticipated some others will insist on continuing to do this, and I have no intent to start a long debate about this; else I could have approached this quite differently, since this usage of MJ is not the intended one, and that this works at all could qualify as bug. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 6:37 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Many (most?) questions/answers/comments on this site have (unavoidably) loads of MathJax. I would have thought that on a device where MathJax is processed improperly or slowly, this site would be nearly impossible to use anyway, and the occasional whitespace hack would be the smallest of problems. But maybe I don't understand how it all works (wouldn't be the first time). | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 5:19 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Joseph asks a good question, and I can easily imagine people not being aesthetically satisfied with Joel's solution. I don't like the heading "What could be a solution?" because the only "solution" you give is "don't do this thing that bothers me", which is redundant. (Hey: why do we even need this 15 character lower bound anyway?) | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 2:41 | comment | added | user9072 | @JoelReyesNoche: yes, 'filler text' that is visually rather non-intrusive is another simple possibility. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 2:39 | comment | added | JRN | In my previous comment, I just added periods separated by a space until the lower bound was reached. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 2:38 | comment | added | JRN | Test. . . . . . | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 2:11 | comment | added | user9072 | @BenjaminSteinberg: indeed, I thought about mentioning this reasoning against too much MathJax from a recent discussion while writing this. But then did not include it. Thank you for the addition. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 2:06 | comment | added | user9072 | @JosephO'Rourke: I intended to just reply 'Yes, of course I can do this.' to point out indirectly that a simple 'yes' can be quite naturally expanded into something having more than 15 characters, and the same should apply for most very short comments. But, then I thought I will add this explanation right away to avoid potential confusion, which very short comments can often create. However, all this is in some sense a form of abstinence. Some know how to get invisible (unicode) characters; personally, I don't of hand. Those that know might share the knwledge here. If not, I might investigate. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 1:29 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | I think is related also to the issue of gratuitous texifying. When viewed with a mobile using cellular data it slows everything down. | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 1:03 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Could you suggest a non-MathJax solution for padding comments to overcome the 15-character lower bound, a solution other than abstinence? :-) | |
| Jul 14, 2013 at 0:38 | history | asked | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |