On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 12:25 -0800, Regis Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:47:06AM +0000, jamie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:06 -0800, Regis Smith wrote:
> > > Tracker doesn't seem to index text files with extension *.tex.  Is there
> > > a way to force it to do so?  Curiously, Tracker by default indexes the
> > > RCS revision files with *.tex,v extension (undesirable, but
> > > configurable) but not the actual *.tex file.  Apologies if I'm totally
> > > missing something obvious.  I'm using 0.6.3.
> > > 
> > 
> > we would need a  latex filter (simple shell script that outputs to a
> > text file)
> > 
> > see http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/tracker/trunk/filters/text/
> 
> Ahh, looks like there is a latex filter that was already added on
> January 2.  It depends on the "untex" command, which I probably don't
> have.  I'll check when I get home.
> 
> Anyway, do you think it would be reasonable to check for the untex
> command and just copy the file directly if untex is not installed?  Say
> something like
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> UNTEX=`which untex`
> if [ -n "$UNTEX" ]; then nice -n19 $UNTEX "$1" > "$2";
> else cat "$1" > "$2";
> fi
> 
> I'd prefer having a TeX file indexed with all the TeX commands than
> having untex (apparently) silently fail.
> 

I have committed your changes - thanks

jamie


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