[OS X TeX] Leo's Spotlight doesn't find sty, lco, engine files

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Sun Nov 18 11:35:15 EST 2007


On Nov 18, 2007, at 4:31 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Finally, there is a DVI Spotlight importer DVIImporter.dmg available  
> from Adam Maxwell's home page at <http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/ 
> >. It works by invoking dvi2tty to extract textual data from DVI  
> files. It's dated 2005 and I've no idea about its Leopard  
> compatibility. I'm not using it myself, as I don't keep DVI files on  
> my hard drive (apart from those docs still in DVI format in TeXLive)  
> and last I tried in 2005 the importer had problems with some such  
> files IIRC.

It works fine AFAIK (within the limits of dvi2tty).  If you have a  
problematic dvi (causes a hang or crash), that would be interesting to  
see.  I have plans for improving it, but it's a very low priority.

-- 
adam




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