Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > 2006/12/14, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > Mark Florian wrote: > > I just noticed that tracker doesn't index the contents of files > of the > > type text/x-tex, that is TeX/LaTeX files. If I copy such a file, > called > > say thesis.tex to thesis.txt, then tracker indexes that .txt file > fully > > as would be expected. > > > > I haven't checked how tracker treats other variants of text/* > mimetypes, > > but it strikes me that tracker should index the contents of *all* > text > > files. > > It does index all plain text files that it detects however if it has a > mime type other than text/plain then it checks the filters directory to > see if a filter is defined for it. If not present then no text is > extracted. > > all the latex/tex needs is a filter to call untex on it (in > tracker/filters/text) > > patches for above welcome > > > > It should be fairly easy to extract metadata from .tex files too. Like > Author and Title (if present - and set through the standard LaTeX macros). > > If this weekend turns out to have something like 500 hours I might look > into it :-) >
great - catch me on irc if you need any help... -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
