If you've found yourself unable to search for text contained inside .tex files through OS X spotlight, here is a solution:
Go here and download the TeX mdimporter (direct download link) An mdimporter is a plugin that tells Spotlight how to index a specific file type.
To install the mdimporter, extract the archive into the directory ~/Library/Spotlight:
$ mkdir ~/Library/Spotlight # (if the directory doesn't exist yet) $ tar xvfz TeX.mdimporter.tgz -C ~/Library/Spotlight
Now you have to let OS X know about the new mdimporter. To do so, open a terminal window and enter:
$ mdimport -r ~/Library/Spotlight/TeX.mdimporter
To make sure everything is indexed, you may want to restart your computer. Also, to tell spotlight explicitly to add all .tex files in a directory (and its subdirectories), you can use the following command:
$ find <directory where tex files reside> -name '*.tex' | xargs -n1 mdimport
Example:
$ find /Users/marius/Work -name '*.tex' | xargs -n1 mdimport