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

[Adam Maxwell]

On Monday, December 19, 2005, at 10:53AM, Norm Gall <gall at spookyhill.net> wrote:

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>On 19-Dec-05, at 10:43 AM, <stephenmoye at cox.net>  
><stephenmoye at cox.net> wrote:
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>> I would also suggest .dtx, .idx and possibly .ind perhaps.
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>Do people keep these things around often? I can see the .ind and .idx  
>but the .dtx?

PDF, DVI, and .tex/.ltx are interesting for their full text content, but do you really want to dump the text of all of these files into the Spotlight metadata store?  I'm afraid adding the text of any file produced by TeX will a) slow down the system when you run TeX b) increase the number of useless search results.

What useful metadata do these files have that can be pulled out?  Don't think of Spotlight as a front end for the brute force `find ~/ -type file -name "*.txt" |xargs grep 'some string'`.  What additional tags should be defined as search criteria?

-- Adam

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>> SGM
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>>> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
>>> Date: 2005/12/19 Mon PM 12:34:26 EST
>>> To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] status of Spotlight indexing of .tex files?
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>>> On Dec 19, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Norm Gall wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> Ok. I suppose that I am the man with respect to the importer.
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>>>> 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.
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Would it be too difficult to add things like .ltx? That is sometimes
>>> (not by me) used for LaTeX files to distinguish them from Plain TeX
>>> files.
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>>> No big deal. I'm looking forward to having it on my system.
>>>
>>> Good Luck,
>>>
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
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