Re: [Tracker] Indexing LaTeX files

[rsmith whistlin com (Regis Smith)]

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.

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