Typinator Set Converter

Alfred file action for converting Typinator sets to Alfred snippet collections

The workflow supports only Typinator sets exported as plain text files.
(.tyset and .typubset are proprietary binary formats and cannot be read)

When converting Typinator snippets, the workflow replaces Typinator’s cursor marker {^} with Alfred’s cursor placeholder {cursor}.
Other Typinator markers are not supported.

The workflow uses OneUpdater for automatic updates.

Installation

Download and install the latest release.

Usage

• Select one or more Typinator snippet sets exported as plain text files
• Invoke Alfred’s file actions pane ⌥⌘\
• Select Convert Typinator Sets
• Press ↵

Options

The configuration options are set using the workflow’s environment variables.

All the configuration variables, except “prefix” and “suffix”, are “pseudo-Boolean”:

• “True”, “yes” or “1” are case-insensitively interpreted as true
• Any other value or no value means false

Configuration Variable	Functionality
customicon	Use the workflow’s custom icon for created snippet collections
dontautoexpand	Disable automatic expansion for all snippets
dontcompress	Do not compress the folder containing the converted snippets. This option may be useful, if you want to make some manual changes to converted snippets. To compress manually, just zip the folder and change its extension from zip to alfredsnippets
noprefix	Do not use any prefixes for converted sets. Even if all keywords in a set have the same prefix, they will remain unchanged, and no prefix will be added to this set’s preferences.
nosuffix	Do not use any suffixes for converted sets. Even if all keywords in a set have the same suffix, they will remain unchanged, and no suffix will be added to this set’s preferences.
prefix	Force the specified prefix for all converted snippet sets. The specified prefix will be added to the preferences of converted snippet sets. If a snippet keyword has the specified prefix, it will be removed from the keyword. For example, if you set prefix to “//”, then “//keyword” will become “keyword”.
suffix	Force the specified suffix for all converted snippet sets. The specified suffix will be added to the preferences of converted snippet sets. If a snippet keyword has the specified suffix, it will be removed from the keyword For example, if you set suffix to “//”, then “keyword//” will become “keyword”).

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