Framing a really good question
As I mentioned previously, I love good questions, and most forum users do too. Sometimes, I will spend an hour creating a TikZ drawing for a user. Others work hard to troubleshoot error messages or output problems. We usually have fun with it, in the case of well-framed questions.
How to do it...
Challenges make us happy, especially if they are solvable. So, questions should do the following:
- Provide as much information as possible
- State the error message text, if there is one
- Format code actually as code using the syntax highlighting feature
- Show your own effort if you managed to achieve something
It's also recommended that you do a forum search with good keywords before posting. A similar question may already have been answered.
And there's the ultimate advice to do something which is nearly a guarantee to solve every LaTeX problem on earth: post a minimal example. The next recipe will deal with this.
