Re: [toolbox] mdimporter Projects?

[Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...>]

On Jul 12, 2005, at 00:45, Jan Hegewald wrote:

> Hello,
> do you know of any LaTeX et al. related projects regarding Spotlight?
> I only know of the DVI importer by Adam Maxwell at
> http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/

The next version of BibDesk will ship with an MDImporter, also, which =20=

will have behavior similar to that of Address Book or Mail...but only =20=

if you use BibDesk.

> I am thinking about writing one for LaTeX or at least Plain text =20
> for files that aren=B4t indexed by default. (e.g. because mdimport =20
> says: type 'public.data' no mdimporter). But mayba there is already =20=

> something like this out there?

Norm Gall wrote one for his emacs distro <http://yaced.sf.net/>.  No =20
idea if it works or not; I don't like installing stuff from .pkgs :).

Ideally, I think each program should bundle its own MDImporter, using =20=

that program's UTI, even if the importer has identical code.  For =20
instance, iTeXMac and TeXniscope could each bundle a DVI importer, =20
since each can claim that UTI; however, only the program that owns =20
DVI on your system would import it (at least, I think that's how it's =20=

supposed to work).  My DVI importer is available under a BSD license, =20=

if anyone's interested.

Adam=