Latex Spotlight Importer

This project contains an spotlight component which indexes Laτεχ source files. It has the following features:

• Does not require any Latex installation.
• Extracts the title and the authors.
• Tries to guess the encoding from the inputenc package.
• Indexes the list of publications keys.
• Full text indexing. The latex code is converted to plain text and indexed.
• Command substitution. Certainc commands are substituted for a unicode string for instance \delta becomes δ. This can be customized using a standard property list.
• Command copying. The parameter of certain commands is simply copied, for instance the content of the \textsf command is simply copied. Again, this can be customized.

To use the importer:

• Open the project and build it.
• Copy the LatexImporter.mdimporter file to ~/Library/Spotlight/
• Normally, the importer is activated automatically, if not, you can type /usr/bin/mdimport -r ~/Library/Spotlight/LatexImporter.mdimporter to force the activation.
• To see what the plugin actually indexes for a given tex document, type in the following command mdimport -d bla.tex where blah is the tex document. You will get all the log messages and the values that have been extracted.
• The project also defines a command-line tool LatexImporterTester which can be used to see what gets indexed without involving the Spotlight infrastructure.