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Recently, one particular user has been answering questions with decently well-thought-out answers, but in the form of a dozen or so screenshots of each page of a pdf that they apparently created using ...
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Is there a way to display multiple lines of equations in display mode on this site? On other SE sites, you can do the following: ...
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Perhaps this is a known issue. You can't put a codeblock directly after a list, even separated with line breaks. It came up in this question, where I finally just added a colon between the list and ...
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If a good-quality image uploaded, it fully expands throughout screen, and interferes reading. Where-as , if I upload a highly compressed version of the image, to fit the size, the necessary details ...
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I noticed that newlines are not allowed in the comments. I find that in many cases (esp questions involving code) newlines would be nice. Does anyone feel this way? If yes will the site templates ...
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Only on electronics.stackexchange.com is the post preview below my text always empty, and the formatting tool is not shown at all. However here on meta.electronics.stackexchange.com it is working just ...
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In a comment, I wrote: Absolutely 0ms isn't possible with any circuit. Here, in a question, you can see a slight difference between the zero and the o: 0o. But in a comment you can't: 0-10 second ...
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This question: Why do many electronics operate on 5 AND 3.3 Volts? (Worded "Why do many electronics operate on 5 AND 3,3 Volts?" in case it gets edited.) Recently reminded me of the frustration of ...
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In this thread, I gave an answer and attempted to use italics at the end of it but failed; rather, my text shows up with the markup asterisks about it but no formatting. (See for yourself.) Am I ...
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I tried to write the following equation on the main site using MathJax: The vertical bar and \$a_2=0\$ indicate that this equation should be evaluated at the point where the related parameter \$a_2\$ ...
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when typesetting numbers and units, my preferred way is to have a space between them for better readability. For instance, one would typeset 24 V instead of 24V It is actually not only my ...
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I want to ask a quick question, and think a circuit diagram would make it a bit clearer, but I don't have any software for knocking one up, is there a recommended online tool I could use? It only ...
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Something was breaking in this question. A code-formatted block follows a numbered list, and the code isn't <pre>-formatted. I'm guessing that it has to do ...
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