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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
New Answer:
Upon reflection, Emilio is 100% correct: We need to sound the alarm bells. Here's a link again to Emilio's well-thought-out answer on the main meta site explaining this, which is probably ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Personally, I find it less usable than the status quo, but better than the new editor proposed by SE. So if it is inevitable that we will have to settle for an inferior alternative in future, this is ...
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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
Here is one option put forward by the SE developers: switching from MathJax to prosemirror-math. For a quick look at how it works, I'll just pull this from their readme:
Examples
Unlike other editors,...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Let me start with a positive:
AMScd diagrams are supported! It seems I don't even need to explicitly include a \require{AMScd} command (at any rate, when I did, ...
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Why does a table work on preview but not on post?
There needs to be a blank line before the table header for it to render correctly in the final output. Unfortunately, the table renders properly in the preview even without a blank line before the ...
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Why is there unexpected space at the beginning of a paragraph in an answer?
The line immediately preceding "The named..." has a single non-breaking space in it, which is preserved in the output.
The editor may be using a differently configured Markdown renderer, for ...
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How long are the lines?
This was mentioned in the comments, but perhaps spelling this out in an answer makes the situation a bit clearer.
When creating a new post (a new answer, a new question), the editor window and the ...
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Why would an equation render on preview and in an external TeX compiler, but not in post?
This is a CW answer - for experimenting.
Here is the equation copy-pasted from the (current revision of the) post:
$$ U_n = M\left(c-\frac{1}{n+2}\right)-M\left(c-\frac{1}{n+1}\right)\label{1}\tag{$U$}...
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How long are the lines?
There's an experimental (as of time of writing) CSS property text-wrap. Note that the linked page includes a browser compatibility chart, which is why I linked ...
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Previewed post does not match rendered post when MathJax uses *
Trying to reproduce the problem. An equation
$$
4+2=9
\tag{*}\label{1}
$$
and then reference to it \eqref{1}. How does it look?
Another equation
$$
4\times2 = 6
\tag{**}\label{2}
$$
and a reference ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
It would be better if there was a way to toggle the rich-text preview.
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
Personally, I was quite happy with it. I retyped various fragments of my recent answers and found the workflow to be quite natural. I didn't try it on mobile, but I find the current system to be ...
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Previewed post does not match rendered post when MathJax uses *
I'm not able to reproduce the mismatch between preview and render. When I go to edit the question and paste the source of that revision, I get the same (undesirable) rendering in the preview. Are you ...
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