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I collaboratively edit documents in Google Docs. Unfortunately, there are no LaTeX macros/wrappers I know of for Google Docs. So, editing a TeX file on Google Docs is like going back to the old days when you had to edit LaTeX in plan text.
Does anybody know of a LaTeX wrapper for Google Docs/Drive?
bidi-mode% !TeX directives: No, but has several realizations of file local variablescustomize and Elisporg-mode, reftex-mode, speedbarEmacs is one of the oldest programmable editors, which has basic support for TeX and friends. AUCTeX is a plugin to Emacs which provides a much more advanced support for editing LaTeX, ConTeXt, docTeX, Texinfo, and Plain TeX documents. It comes with a sophisticated auto-completion mechanism for environments and commands, supporting by default more than two hundreds LaTeX packages (but virtually any package can be automatically parsed in order to provide autocompletion for its commands and environments).
(In this screenshot, visual-line-mode is enabled. In this mode, lines that are wider than the window are broken between words. The line breaks are not added to the source file.)
RefTeX is another plugin to Emacs, independent from and complementary to AUCTeX, which aids you with the management of bibliographic sources. It makes all your references as easy to find as a C-c <key>, for both BibTeX and biblatex, and also provides convenient shortcuts for navigating between sections in your document, bound by default to C-c =:
(Note that colour themes are completely customizable)
AUCTeX supports multi-file parsing, so that huge documents with \input or \include commands are easily compiled with C-c C-c from any of their files. No more going back to the master file in order to compile.
AUCTeX's preview-latex offers WYSIWYG previewing of formulae.
Interesting features of Emacs:
table-insert along with table-generate-source and table-recognize-* functions to easily create a base for your tables.evil-mode. If you use emacs, you can use the super-slick feature align-current.
If you're inside a tabular environment, it will add space to vertically align the &s.
There is more information about this feature here. align-current plus emacs' ability to kill (cut) blocks — ie. rectangles — of text, you can do most of the manipulations you'd want to. (See here)
All this aside, datatool is probably the better tool for bigger tables.
Best Answer
Auto-Latex Equations add-on for Google Docs
For all math equations typeset in MathJax/LaTeX, the Auto-Latex Equations add-on for Google Docs is free and works brilliantly. It simply replaces all your math with high-quality images of the equation.
All you have to do is type an equation within delimiters, like $$55 + \sqrt{5}$$ and it can be rendered in super high quality at whatever time you like by rendering all the equations in your document. If you mess up, you can always undo one or all the equations.
You can get it for free at the Google Docs add-ons store.