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Enable syntax highlighting for code
I support this.
(Vote here if you support this, too.)
As a computational chemist I am clearly biased, but currently cannot find any good reason to not have code highlighting. I have seen enough ...
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Change “for scientists, academics, teachers and students”
"... for scientists, academics, teachers, and students in the field of chemistry."*
"scientists of chemistry" and "academics of chemistry" are awkward compositions, so I think that simply "... for ...
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Change “for scientists, academics, teachers and students”
The current description implicitly excludes laymen from our target audience. Surely our site welcomes anyone with a good chemistry question or a good chemistry answer. SE Earth Science does not ...
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Enable syntax highlighting for code
This is enabled, but not by default - lots of existing posts use code formatting for things that don't benefit from syntax highlighting, and I don't see any pervasive language tags that would be ...
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Chemistry's updated site theme is ready for testing!
There are few things I like about the update, and some others I don't. I think overall the functionality is preserved and the rest are some design choices I will get used to (like I did with the 'old' ...
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Should chem.SE use Georgia font?
I concur that georgia is suboptimal for our number heavy site; not to mention that zero and lowercase o look the very similar [0o0o]. I would prefer not to use \$ \$ to make numbers presentable.
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My user page is wider than my browser window in the new layout
Yep! This is because we haven't made the entire site responsive yet. It's not a bug so much as still on our to-do list.
It's part of why we've asked Help us improve the user profile and settings on ...
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Enable syntax highlighting for code
I support this too.
But I think it should have to be explicitly enabled by each post's author
We don't have the same natural categorization system as does Stack Overflow: we don't have python or ...
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Changes in UI mess with design of the "lab bench"
thanks for reporting. This is indeed because of black top bar becoming taller. Fix is waiting in repo for next build, so you should be able to see it in next couple hours.
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Chemistry's updated site theme is ready for testing!
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The OP highlighting is uncomfortably close to the deleted-posts background
This is similar to what happened earlier on Academia, and presumably the fix should be identical. The ...
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Should chem.SE use Georgia font?
I'm not a designer nor I have a major in typography, so the following is a pure subjectivism.
I think that half-measures are evil, and attempting to fit subscripts in chemical formulas with the ...
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Can we have a font that harmonizes with inline MathJAX?
After graduation, we have a better-matching font. I am still not completely happy with the current state.
I looked how much effort it would be to make \ce fit ...
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Quote box coloring, should it stand out more?
The quote box here on Chemistry seems to be exactly the same as the quote box over at German and Travel. Thus, I suspect very strongly, that it is the same quote-box networt wide — minus a few ‘lucky’ ...
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Should chem.SE use Georgia font?
I think the choice of oldstyle numbers was at least somewhat influenced precisely by the large number of numerical subscripts in chemistry meaning that plain-text typed H2O would at least somewhat ...
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Should chem.SE use Georgia font?
One answer that would be more broadly for Stack Exchange in general is to allow users to select the font they desire from a small list in the site settings. Of course there would be a default/...
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Should chem.SE use Georgia font?
It's not the best choice, but I think it is preferable to what was before. You might want to check out the discussions when we got the graduate design, it's one of the points I mentioned: https://...
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