Dictation provides a great way of entering text. However, the documentation I found so far is scarce, and for instance I do not know what the blue dots underlying some parts of the text:    For instance, is it possible to chose an alternate text (solution)?  Note: I tried any possibility as , but no luck there...
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I know that the dotted blue underlined words during dictation in OS X are supposed to provide alternative suggestions of the voice transcription.    However, when I control-click or right-click the blue underlined words, I do not see any suggestions or alternatives.  Please help!    I am running the GM of OS X Mavericks...been running Mavericks since beta seed 4.   Also, I use a magic trackpad, not a mouse (just in case this matters).   Is this just a Mavericks bug or am I doing something wrong?
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What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc.  This question is undergoing a systematic refurbishment, see  on Meta. If you’d like to see another editor feature covered here or to take care of an editor that’s not covered yet, share your ideas in that meta question.  List of editors Links to answers.
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What is it for? How do I use it? How is it different from the regular Command Prompt? Is there anything I should know before starting to use it? Any awesome things you can do with it that a super user should know about?
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If I type ' (single quote, next to the &lt;enter&gt; button) in the terminal and then press enter it drops to a &gt; prompt.  What exactly is this, what's it used for, and what type of commands can I enter here?    I can &lt;Ctrl-C&gt; out of it but that's all I got.
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Whenever I try to use the arrow keys in the at&gt; prompt (after, for example, running at now) it just shows control codes, eg. ^[[D for &larr;.  This makes pasting and editing long commands difficult as the only viable option is to edit, copy and paste from a separate document.  So, how do I get arrow keys to work in the at&gt; prompt?  (Googling for anything having to do with the at&gt; prompt or /usr/bin/at is quite difficult…)
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Does anyone know a package for ?    Failing that, is anyone interested in writing a command to create one? I'm thinking of something that would have optional and configurable separators above and below (e.g., lines or large quotation marks), and option to float left, right, or center. Ideally the command should print the argument and the pull quote so you do not have to duplicate the text that you want to quote.   To avoid duplicating existing questions, perhaps we should focus on single column documents, so that the pull quote has to be boxed?
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Is it intended to hide the extended instructive text? It isn't visible at all now because when you enter something, it disappears.
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I'm currently writing a user guide containing a lot of keyboard shortcuts. I'm looking for a "keyboard" font where single characters or special keys (like tab or backspace) appear like the "real" key (i.e. with a box around; hope you get the idea).  Is there any package available for this or do I have to wrap one of the existing PS/TTF Fonts?
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I am finding this very inefficient, every time I type up something MiKTeX just indents for me and I have to enclose everything in \noindent{...}.  Is there a quick way of going past this?
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Are there any hotkeys to make a text bold or italic in TeXlipse plug-in? It is tiresome to type \textbf{} and \textit{} each time I need to emphasize some word. Most of other TeX-editors support standard Ctrl+B" and Ctrl+I, but in TeXlipse it doesn't work.
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How could I write my name, for example, in a \LaTeX style? It is just interesting, as in Google all other things pop up when I try to search for an answer!
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How are people showing keyboard &quot;glyphs&quot; on Super User? I looked at the Markdown help page and it didn't show anything regarding this. Here is  (question has been deleted since this was asked, so an archive link is provided instead):
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I heard that you can hold alt and type out some cryptic numeric code to get characters like accented letters. Is there a way to do this more like the ?
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What is the command to insert inline code words into the text like this?   I know there are packages for inserting snippets into the code, but I need to insert keywords within the main text. I was wondering if there is a more convenient way to do that.
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We all use editing facilities to change a line of text as we are entering it. There are two principal editing modes within a line, a) "insert mode" which inserts non-editing characters at the point of the cursor, and shuffles text to the right, and b) "overwrite mode", in which non-editing characters simply overwrite whatever character the cursor selects.  Overwrite mode IMHO is left from the days of green-screen CRTs. The only use I have ever found for it is drawing 2-D pictures in ASCII, which I quit doing back in the 80s when real drawing tools became available.  Windows (stupidly IMHO) offers overwrite mode toggle-enabled by use of the INSERT key on the keyboard. (I'd guess Linux/Unix likely follow suit in the usual Windows-envy). I don't ever hit that button because it just puts me in overwrite mode.  However, as I'm typing sometimes Overwrite mode suddenly happens. I think it must be some strange combination of ALT/Windows/CTRL/SHIFT and some other key, or two standard keys depressed in time nearby. Does anybody know what the alternate key sequence is so I can try harder to avoid it? Is there a way to tell Windows to simply stop using Overwrite mode?
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I see bold and italics button but no inline code while it uses quite an uncommon syntax (back ticks, `` - the syntax is good, just not very obvious). It would be convenient to have this button.  Related but not the same:
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There are several types of  in the English language (and in other languages there are even more). There are also several ways in LaTeX to represent these. I have seen editors, that are capable of directly entering “ and ”. And I have also seen things like this `''.  So, what is the best way to do English quotation marks in LaTeX?