[texshop] Modified Experimental 4.33

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at icloud.com
Mon Aug 26 01:48:32 CEST 2019


> Le 25 août 2019 à 16:03, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> a écrit :
> 
> I might leave public.tex as the default UTI. Does it do any harm?

I haven't really started testing, so I can't say from the technical point of view.

However, from the "legal" point of view, going to Apple's documentation on UTIs, that page

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/understanding_utis/understand_utis_conc/understand_utis_conc.html

says:

"
• The public domain is reserved for common or standard types that are of general use to most applications: [...] UTIs with the public domain are called public identifiers. Currently only Apple can declare public identifiers.

• The dyn domain is reserved for special dynamic identifiers. [...]

• All other domains are available for use by third parties. [...]
"

So I'm worried by "Currently only Apple can declare public identifiers". Although it's an archive, there's no indication that the page, despite its slightly old-fashioned design, does not contain up-to-date information.

Similarly the wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier

says

"Apple maintains the public.* domain as a set base data types for all UTIs."

Adam discussed this briefly in his essay

https://github.com/amaxwell/mactex_uti/blob/master/mactex_uti.pdf

which led him to propose using org.tug.tex instead, IIRC provided TUG accepted "responsability" for the UTI.

Bruno


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