Re: [toolbox] mdimporter Projects?

[Jan H. <j.h...@tu...>]

Am 12.07.2005 um 17:50 schrieb Maxwell, Adam R:


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> On Jul 12, 2005, at 00:45, Jan Hegewald wrote:
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>> 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/
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> The next version of BibDesk will ship with an MDImporter, also, =20
> which will have behavior similar to that of Address Book or =20
> Mail...but only if you use BibDesk.
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Of course I use it. (-;


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>> 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 =20
>> already something like this out there?
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> Norm Gall wrote one for his emacs distro <http://yaced.sf.net/>.  =20
> No idea if it works or not; I don't like installing stuff =20
> from .pkgs :).
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> Ideally, I think each program should bundle its own MDImporter, =20
> using that program's UTI, even if the importer has identical code.  =20=

> For instance, iTeXMac and TeXniscope could each bundle a DVI =20
> importer, since each can claim that UTI; however, only the program =20
> that owns DVI on your system would import it (at least, I think =20
> that's how it's supposed to work).  My DVI importer is available =20
> under a BSD license, if anyone's interested.
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I am interested in your DVI-importer source. Can you send it via email?



--Jan--