[OS X TeX] status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?

[Norm Gall]

On 19-Dec-05, at 12:41 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> On 19 Dec 2005, at 18:15, Norm Gall wrote:
>
>> Ok. I suppose that I am the man with respect to the importer.
>>
>> I have re-written the importer this morning and have set the UTI  
>> to org.tug.tex, it recognises .tex, .latex, and .texi extensions.  
>> It is independent of any editor (as far as I can tell so far) and  
>> I will be testing it for the next few days to make sure I haven't  
>> made a mess of things.
>
> Great!
>
>>     kMDItemTextContent = "\\documentclass[11pt]{article}\n\n\ 
>> \usepackage{amsfonts}\n\\usepackage{graphicx}\n\n\\title{Brief  
>> Article}\n\n\\author{Norman Gall}\n\n\\date{\\today}\n\n\\begin 
>> {document}\n\\maketitle\n\nThis is a whole bunch of text.\n\n\ 
>> \bibliographystyle{}\n\\bibliography{}\n\\end{document}\n \n\n%%%  
>> Local Variables: \n%%% mode: latex\n%%% TeX-master: t\n%%% End: \n";
>
> Does it filter information from the complete contents? or does it  
> just take the first 2kB or so?
>

The whole file.

>> I think I'm going to rename some things (tex.mdimporter, perhaps)  
>> but I'd like to know what extensions people use to mark their files.
>
> I think a previous message by Karl Berry gave a list (.ltx, .ctx).  
> I wouldn't include .cls and .sty, as they are not user documents  
> (at least not in general).
>

I think you are right.

>> I hope that this will be helpful,
>
> I think so.
>
> Maarten
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