Upload of .tex file in google docs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Upload a .tex into google docs.
2. Attempt to open the document from latex-lab.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

After uploading the tex file, google docs does not recognize it as a text
document, hence does not set the type correctly. In result, latex-lab
cannot open it (no link is provided on the document name in the open
dialog). I suggest latex-lab should detect if a document name ends in .tex
and allow the user to open it in that case. The list of extensions should
potentially be extended with other TeX/LaTeX related ones.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Tried with Ubuntu Lucid, and Windows Vista.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thena...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2010 at 1:55

• Merged into: #6

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Any files that are uploaded to Google Docs which are not converted to documents 
can't
be edited. This is a limitation of Google Docs at this time. The workaround 
would be
to create documents from Google Docs or LaTeX Lab and paste the code in.

Hopefully the Google Docs API will remove this limitation in the near future.

Original comment by bobbysoa...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 1:16

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Original comment by bobbysoa...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 1:17

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Original comment by bobbysoa...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 1:25

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I understand. One possible work around would be to offer an upload file option 
in
latexlab which will rename the file from X.tex to X.txt, hence google docs would
recognize it as a document.

Original comment by thena...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 2:51

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That's probably the best route, at least for now.

Original comment by bobbysoa...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2010 at 3:21

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sohil madhvani 

Original comment by sohilmad...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2011 at 4:31

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Another temporary solution, latex-lab can recognize the .tex extension, 
download the text, delete the file an re-upload it.

Original comment by thena...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2011 at 4:37