Bug 6235

Summary:	Missing patterns for text/x-tex
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Thomas Braun <thomas.braun>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	bugzilla
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Thomas Braun 2006-03-12 23:57:48 UTC

Hi,
I was referred here by an KDE BTS entry
(http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114940).

Currently the patterns 
<glob pattern="*.tex"/>
<glob pattern="*.ltx"/>
<glob pattern="*.sty"/>
<glob pattern="*.cls"/>
determine an Tex-Document.

The entries *.dtx and *.ins are missing. (See
e.g.http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dtx for an explanation what
these files are)
In short these are extensions for documents which have to be processed using
"latex <filename>".

In KDE also *.latex is included in text/x-latex, but there seems no text/x-latex
in the shared-mime-info-0.16 package. I don't no how official the suffix
".latex" is for latex documents.

Thanks
Thomas Braun

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-08-25 07:40:49 UTC

Done for the patterns:
2006-08-25  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * freedesktop.org.xml.in: add *.dtx and *.ins as possible patterns
        for TeX files, spotted by Thomas Braun <braun@physik.fu-berlin.de>
        (Re: #6235)

Anything wrong with adding *.latex to the TeX patterns as well?

Comment 2 Thomas Braun 2006-08-26 08:28:59 UTC

Hello,

I just made a little internet research and discovered that .ltx is also a common
suffix for tex documents. Especially under latex users having winedt as editor.

I would suggest to add .ltx and .latex to the x-tex mimetype.

There is, in my eyes, no need for an extra mimetype x-latex.
If there is need for, I can try to get an official answer to this question.

Thanks
Thomas Braun

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2006-08-26 15:55:33 UTC

*.ltx was already in there.

2006-08-26  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * freedesktop.org.xml.in: Add *.latex as a pattern for TeX documents
        (Closes: #6235)

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