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You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.

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Could we use a font where 'l' doesn't look identical to 'I'?

I've been perusing a few posts here and there, and one thing that sometimes confuses me is seeing an 'l' and thinking that it is an 'I'. An example is the question about ClF3 ($\ce {ClF3}$) which I ...
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Additional note on "Markdown Editing Help"

Yesterday I extended one of my answers. Hosted on the chemistry site, chemical equations were used, yet it was rather by accident I recognized the option to use LaTeX's mhchem environment \ce{} ...
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Asking Brainteasers

I had recently posted a brainteaser on the site and it was closed. I just joined the site a few days ago and I was just wondering why exactly asking such questions is not appropriate. https://...
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Do we want small caps?

after writing this answer What chemicals are present in burnt toast? i have encountered that there is no small caps available in MathJax. Wouldn't it be a good idea to provide small caps for citing s....
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We need a better subtitle [duplicate]

Same thing as https://biology.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76/change-the-sites-subtitle When a question is migrated away from chemistry.stackexchange.com, the following is shown: The subtitle of ...
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TeX tutorial too intimidating/extensive [duplicate]

The help sidebar ("How to format") links to http://www.math.harvard.edu/texman/ That's a bit too extensive for us. (And it's for LaTeX proper, not mathjax so it has tons of irrelevant stuff) Can we ...
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Enable mhchem mathjax extension

Mathjax 2.0 supports the mhchem extension. Could we enable it? It will save us lots of time in typesetting chemical formulae. How to enable the extension
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Submitting a suggested edit for a tag, still results in a "Tag has no wiki summary, can you help us create it?" [closed]

This is a bug, because an "edit" (at least to the extent that the user can make it) has already been made. Is there anything that can be done to change this, perhaps for the first few days of the ...
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Which plugins for chemical formulas do we need?

Some Stack Exchange sites have site-specific extensions that allow them e.g. to typeset mathematical equations, create UI mockups or display Go board positions. Some support for creating and ...
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