[OS X TeX] UTI for Textures documents

[Bruno Voisin]

In Tiger, Textures documents whose name does not contain the  
extension .tex are no longer recognized as belonging to Textures;  
instead, they are considered as TexEdit documents. I've just been  
faced with this when trying to open an old Textures document. I can  
of course add the extension .tex to its name, but only if there's no  
other solution.

So far, a Textures document was recognized as such based on its  
Creator/Type strings, namely *TEX/TEXT. Apparently, in Tiger this is  
no longer true. I imagine this is due to the new UTI mechanism in Tiger.

The Blue Sky TeX Systems site has been updated following the release  
of Tiger, and two problems are mentioned: one, at <http:// 
www.bluesky.com/news/news_frames.html>, regarding interaction with  
SpotLight, and the other, at <http://www.bluesky.com/news/news- 
OSX.html>, which is precisely the above problem. It is said there is  
no solution at present.

Hence this mail: does any programmer here know of some command-line  
instruction for example, that could be used to tell Tiger that files  
with a *TEX Creator string do belong to Textures? Or can this be  
achieved by editing some .plist file somewhere (regarding Launch  
Services maybe?), to give files with this resource the appropriate  
UTI? Or does it necessarily require a change in the Textures  
application itself, such that this application declares the  
appropriate UTIs?

I tried a very naive thing: rebuild the Classic Desktop. But of  
course that didn't solve the problem.

Bruno Voisin
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