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Using Wave to collaborate on Latex documents

This blog post is a copy of a much nicer PDF version . I found that Wave could be used as collaborative editor on Latex documents by using a modified export bot and a simple shell script. The exporty2 bot (living at exporty2@appspot.com ) allows you to access a wave using access tokens instead of cookie based logins making it easier to fetch those waves using curl. Also the exporty2 bot allows you to export only the text of a Wave using the ``raw'' template. The raw URL given by the exporty2 bot is pasted into the shell script below. It serves as master wave as it is the document that is latex-ed. Additionally it also lists other resources using the special %FETCHURL tag. These resources are pairs of local name and URL. Curl fetchs these resources and stores it under their local name before the shell scripts runs the usual combination of latex/bibtex/latex. I usually put those %FETCHURL tags below \documentclass . #!/bin/sh TITLE="wave-collaboration" TOKEN=c64