How do you guys prepare long posts for SE; particularly for those that support mathjax?
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I write them in a plain text file (in my case with gedit or Geany) and translate with pandoc:
pandoc --mathjax -s -o post.html post.md
That gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect on SE, provided you don't use Markdown features one of pandoc and SE does not support.
I should maybe note that I keep a record of the images I create (in files) since they tend to be very time-consuming and sources don't end up on SE. I can only recommend using TikZ for this purpose, though, as the results are very nice. See here for details.
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$\begingroup$ Ah, nice gallery. Is that a custom HTML page, or is there a nice way to host such a gallery? Indeed it would be nice if one can include sources to images (I tried keeping graphviz image sources in comments, it didn't turn out so well IIRC; in the meantime I keep the sources in my stackedit draft), perhaps in a spoiler-like tag that would default to collapsed. $\endgroup$ Oct 8, 2013 at 17:55
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$\begingroup$ @RealzSlaw That's a custom-built PHP script. If there is interest I am happy to share, though. I link the sources as you can see in the resp. posts; they have no good place on SE (spoiler tags don't collapse!). You could use pastebin or something like that, I guess. $\endgroup$– Raphael ModOct 8, 2013 at 17:59
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I used to use notepages (demo, project). It was slightly annoying, because they use different open/close symbols for mathjax.
Then I started using stackedit (project), which works great, and integrates well with Google Docs/Drive and Dropbox. You can even install it as an App under google docs, which will create a stackedit document that will automatically save there.
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$\begingroup$ Wow, StackEdit seems to be very useful. Good find! $\endgroup$– Raphael ModNov 11, 2013 at 14:30