Re: [Texmacs-dev] address@hidden: Bug#154150: command line export]

[Ralf Treinen]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:24:41PM +0200, David Allouche wrote:

> > Yes, we should indeed automize file conversions.
> > Lyx has quite a clean system for this, which we might reproduce.
> > David: can you put this on the wish list. There has been a contribution
> > by Jorik Blaas too in "contributions" on the Wiki.
> 
> That is currently partially implemented. See:
> 
> http://alqua.com/tmresources/wish%20-%20TeXmacs%20import%20and%20export%20via%20command%20line
> 

Great! 

> > > BTW, did anyone contact the maintainer of the file(1) utility to
> > > add texmacs files? 
> > 
> > No... Would you be willing to do so?
> 
> I would handle this (contacting Debian and upstream maintainers), but
> first I would like the magic number definition to be validated.

I already offered to Joris to do it, but didn't do anything yet :-(
However, I would perfer if you could contact the maintainer of file(1)
sicne you belong to the core team.

> To learn TeXmacs to the file(1) command, just add the following to
> your /etc/magic file.
> 
> # TeXmacs
> 0     string  <TeXmacs|       TeXmacs document text

Works for me. Is "TeXmacs document text" really the right denomination?
It recognizes as well TeXmacs style files. Maybe "TeXmacs document"
or style" would be better?

> Similarly, the mime magic (as in /usr/share/misc magic.mime) is:
> 
> # TeXmacs
> 0       string  <TeXmacs|       text/texmacs

On my system (debian), I also have a file /etc/magic, belonging to the
gnome-libs-data package. It seems to be in the same format than
mime.magic.

I can dig out the contact information if you don't have them. There is
normally no need to contact the debian package maintainers, they should
build new packages when there are new upstream sources.

-Ralf.
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