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Can we publicise the brilliant "insert citation" button? [duplicate]
This question is really just a heads up for the insert citation button. I'm a fairly regular user of MO, but I had no idea about this button until it was mentioned by Joe Silverman in an answer.
I ...
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Formatting citations to the literature on MathOverflow
We'd like to make it easier to cite articles from the literature, on MathOverflow.
I propose adding a single button to the edit toolbar while writing posts, which will pop up a search dialog, allow ...
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Request for help with javascript for the citation search feature
I would like to switch over the citation helper from the current kludged together back-end based on MathSciNet data, to an officially supported back-end (very kindly!) provided by Zentralblatt.
We'll ...
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Citing papers in questions/answers
Is there an established policy for how to cite a paper you link to in a question/answer? If not, what does etiquette dictate appropriate for citations?
I used to be careful to include full citations ...
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Braces don't render in preview
When I type braces in math mode in a post, like $\{1,2,3\}$, they don't show up in the preview. See the following screen shot.
I tried all the different Math ...
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Citation helper: can we have it automatically convert \(...\)s into \$...\$s?
Here is an example output of the citation helper in the case where the citation's title contains $\rm\LaTeX$ code (random paper found by searching for L^\infty)
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Formatting problem
In my answer to
When is the closed unit ball in a smaller Banach space closed in a larger Banach space?
I wrote the following:
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Edit: $Y=Z^*$ does not display correctly when it is in the body ...
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Is the citation helper broken?
For the last several days I've had no luck using the citation helper. Whenever I attempt to search for anything, although a search seems to be ongoing even letting it sit for minutes doesn't produce ...
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Icon for citation helper
On the main MathOverflow site (and also on math.stackexchange) the icon for the citation helper, which used to look as below, has recently confusingly changed to a "B", identical to the icon at the ...
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Is something wrong with the citation helper?
I've found the citation helper very useful for inserting references in posts, and I always used to be very impressed at its ability to find details of even some quite obscure papers.
But recently it ...