Re: [Tracker] Tracker doesn't index contents of text/x-tex files

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 2006/12/14, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk 
> <mailto:jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>>:
>
>     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...

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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