[OS X TeX] tex files and mdimport

[Norm Gall]

On 14-Nov-05, at 2:55 PM, Adam Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Monday, November 14, 2005, at 01:17PM, Frank STENGEL  
> <fstengel at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Le 14 nov. 05 à 20:53, Adam Maxwell a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> Right, I'd really like to avoid that as well.  I've defined a bogus
>>> UTI for my experiment, but you'd probably want to define a UTI in
>>> TeXShop, then create a new MDImporter in Xcode for that UTI.  I'll
>>> provide the GetMetadataForFile.m implementation, and it can be
>>> dropped into a new importer project (each one has a unique ID,
>>> generated when you create the project).  If anyone else wants to
>>> use it, they follow the same procedure (set up UTI in Info.plist,
>>> create importer with unique ID).
>>
>> The only caveat being that there would be TeXShop's importer and
>> iTeXMac's importer and...
>
> You are correct.  The only way to remedy that would be by adopting  
> an common UTI for .tex files, e.g. org.tug.tex, then have each  
> front end declare that they edit that UTI; they could then use the  
> same importer, as far as I understand.  There was some discussion  
> of an official UTI a few months ago, but I don't recall anything  
> being formalized (and I'm not going to use the org.tug domain  
> without permission).

Indeed. The LaTeX mdimporter for the yaced Carbon Emacs, for  
instance, requires that you have Carbon Emacs installed to assign the  
UTI.

Perhaps we _should_ standardise the UTI for tex files (it would seem  
that there's a de facto standard for bib files already). Perhaps we  
need to discuss this a bit and do it.

Norm Gall

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