Tex-Edit Plus
Encyclopedia
Tex-Edit Plus is a fast and simple, styled text editor
named after Texas
, the author's homeland (it has nothing to do with TeX
or LaTeX
). The extensively scriptable application for Mac OS X
is considered highly useful for cleaning up cross-platform text and styles.
, grep
expressions, Apple's Automator
, Apple's Text-to-speech capabilities, and can save documents as audio files. To place images between text lines, e.g. screenshots etc., one can simply paste pictures from the clipboard and save them with the document. All document windows can save their size and screen position – so that Tex-Edit Plus can also be used as a much better notetaking
(memo
) tool than Stickies etc.
As with some other Mac editors, Tex-Edit Plus can read, convert and save files in various international formats, including Unicode
, ASCII
and RTF
. For example it can open the "raw" text of Word
documents.
Tex-Edit Plus is multilingual (e.g. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and based on the WASTE text engine
.
Text editor
A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files.Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code....
named after Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, the author's homeland (it has nothing to do with TeX
TeX
TeX is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as ....
or LaTeX
LaTeX
LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to...
). The extensively scriptable application for Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
is considered highly useful for cleaning up cross-platform text and styles.
Features
Tex-Edit Plus supports AppleScriptAppleScript
AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. and built into Macintosh operating systems since System 7. The term "AppleScript" may refer to the scripting system itself, or to particular scripts that are written in the AppleScript language....
, grep
Grep
grep is a command-line text-search utility originally written for Unix. The name comes from the ed command g/re/p...
expressions, Apple's Automator
Automator (software)
Automator is an application developed by Apple for Mac OS X that implements point-and-click creation of workflows for automating repetitive tasks into batches for quicker alteration, thus saving time and effort over human intervention to manually change each file separately...
, Apple's Text-to-speech capabilities, and can save documents as audio files. To place images between text lines, e.g. screenshots etc., one can simply paste pictures from the clipboard and save them with the document. All document windows can save their size and screen position – so that Tex-Edit Plus can also be used as a much better notetaking
Notetaking
Notetaking is the practice of recording information captured from a transient source, such as an oral discussion at a meeting, or a lecture. Notes of a meeting are usually called minutes. The format of the initial record may often be informal and/or unstructured. One common format for such notes is...
(memo
Memorandum
A memorandum is from the Latin verbal phrase memorandum est, the gerundive form of the verb memoro, "to mention, call to mind, recount, relate", which means "It must be remembered ..."...
) tool than Stickies etc.
As with some other Mac editors, Tex-Edit Plus can read, convert and save files in various international formats, including Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
, ASCII
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
and RTF
Rich Text Format
The Rich Text Format is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange....
. For example it can open the "raw" text of Word
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...
documents.
Tex-Edit Plus is multilingual (e.g. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and based on the WASTE text engine
WASTE text engine
The WASTE is an Apple Macintosh text editing software library. The "text engine" allows Macintosh programmers to easily add advanced text display and editing features to their applications....
.