Use table-insert along with table-generate-source and table-recognize-* functions to easily create a base for your tables.
No more going back to the master file in order to compile.ĪUCTeX's preview-latex offers WYSIWYG previewing of formulae.
(Note that colour themes are completely customizable)ĪUCTeX 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. It makes all your references as easy to find as a C-c, for both BibTeX and biblatex, and also provides convenient shortcuts for navigating between sections in your document, bound by default to C-c =: RefTeX is another plugin to Emacs, independent from and complementary to AUCTeX, which aids you with the management of bibliographic sources. The line breaks are not added to the source file.) In this mode, lines that are wider than the window are broken between words. (In this screenshot, visual-line-mode is enabled. 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). AUCTeX is a plugin to Emacs which provides a much more advanced support for editing LaTeX, ConTeXt, docTeX, Texinfo, and Plain TeX documents.
This question is undergoing a systematic refurbishment, see Let’s polish the Editors/IDEs question on Meta. Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF files, etc. What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents?