Notes to Self on Google Docs

I write most professional correspondence in either plaintext (markdown) or latex+pdf. I recently had to make two versions of the same document in latex and Google Docs.1 1This is unnatural. The medium of communication affects both the reading and writing experience. But I don't explain why, and instead merely comment on how. Eventually the latex+pdf version will be made public, so I write the initial draft in latex. The Venting Part Latex is a more powerful and easier drafting language than Google Docs. Something that surprised me is that table placement is actually radically easier in latex than Google Docs - this blew my mind. I think there is no way to have a table in Google Docs that will not break across different pages! Or actually, there is, but it's clearly a kludge. You can set it so that Google Docs tables won't split a single large row across different pages. And you can embed one table inside another table. So to make an unbreakable table, you embed it inside a 1x1 table…