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- Revision History of Tex-Edit Plus
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- (8/2/98)
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.3.3b
- Added Apple Guide help file.
- Added “playing” application property to detect when sound playback is active.
- Open command now returns a window reference.
- Fixed bug when printing sub-range of odd or even pages.
- Fixed “Print Selection” scripting bug.
- Fixed “Read Starting at Cursor” bug.
- Fixed Auto-Indent bug.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.3.2
- Fixed printing bug which involves ImageWriter and “spooled” printing.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.3.1
- Preferred text width setting used when opening documents created by previous versions of Tex-Edit.
- Window reverts to “unsaved” condition when changing wrapping width, justification, size, etc.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.3
- Find Previous command added.
- Print Options merged into Page Setup dialog and made scriptable.
- Documents remember Page Setup (and Print Options) information when saved.
- Print odd or even pages.
- Print multiple documents from Finder with only one Print dialog (no windows).
- Large PICTs will scale down to page setup size when printed.
- Multi-document printouts can now be cancelled properly.
- LW 8.4 extended print records supported.
- Save As dialog now defaults to directory of original file (depending on General Controls setting).
- Cmd-up/down arrow shortcut scrolls through panels in the Help and Preferences dialogs.
- More keyboard menu shortcuts.
- Aesthetics of menus improved (thanks to new version of Mercutio MDEF).
- More menu commands made scriptable/recordable.
- All preference settings made scriptable (whew!).
- New sound and picture classes for scripting.
- New playback command to play sounds.
- New page count window property.
- Metric units supported with new Preferences switch.
- Empty documents close without a “Save” warning.
- WYSIWYG fonts is turned off by default.
- Changed “replace from multiple spaces to space/tab” to “single space/single tab” in dictionary.
- Fixed display bug in Speech Options dialog.
- Fixed bug involving script execution in non-text windows.
- Fixed script-related window update/redraw bug.
- Fixed several bugs related to “Auto-Highlighting” command.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.2.1
- Fixed cursor bug (thanks to Spotlight).
- Fixed problem noted when creating SimpleText read-only doc in double byte script.
- Improved ordering of modification execution in Modify dialog.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.2
- Added “Print Selection” command.
- Added optional page count in Word Count dialog.
- Go To Line Number dialog displays available line range.
- Print One Copy now scriptable and recordable.
- More scripts for easy Mac <-> DOS conversions.
- More scripts for easy Mac <-> HTML conversions.
- Various useful and/or fun scripts added.
- Added new preference to run “Startup” script when Tex-Edit launches.
- Command-shift and function key shortcuts made available in Scripts menu.
- Live menus with many more shortcuts added thanks to Ramon Felciano’s Mercutio MDEF.
- Added support for Marc Moini’s SmartScroll.
- Final release version of WASTE text engine used (supports bidirectional text).
- Improved keyboard shortcut arrangement (documented in Help dialog).
- Clippings dragged to desktop are named after originating window (OS 8).
- Added support for movable modal alerts (OS 8).
- Improved Modify dialog interface, giving easier access to Line Length settings.
- Changed interface of several other dialogs, simplifying internal layout.
- SimpleText docs with pictures are displayed even if some pictures are missing.
- Windows are drawn at preferred/saved size even if bottom falls off screen.
- Fixed bug noted when zooming windows on 68K Macs.
- Fixed bug noted when printer software missing or uninitialized.
- Fixed bug noted when replacing text which happens to contain the wildcard sequence.
- Fixed undo bug noted when using “Auto Indent.”
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.1
- Live scroll enabled.
- Text wrapping width is now selectable for individual windows (new menu option).
- Text wrapping width is saved with document.
- Enhanced Find/Replace wildcard functions (see explanatory table in documents).
- Style Run is now a scriptable text attribute.
- State of tab display saved with document.
- Added “Auto Indent” command.
- Script globals are now saved between script executions.
- Rearranged menu commands slightly for clarity.
- Added WYSIWYG Font menu option for Mac OS 8 users.
- New version of WASTE text engine used.
- “Show Invisibles” now displays linefeeds and formfeeds.
- Adjusted Find dialog interface slightly.
- Fixed “Show Invisibles” bug on 68000 machines thanks to Paul Durrant!
- Fixed problem using “Clear” command with dialogs.
- Fixed bugs when using styles during search and replace.
- Correct search placeholders sent during script recording.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.0.5
- Character count updates properly when window receives drag.
- Better handling of nonstandard clipboard entries.
- Improved picture placement when creating SimpleText read-only documents.
- Fixed bug which prevented speaking of read-only documents.
- Improved zoomed window positioning, also zooms correctly on multiple monitors.
- Fixed “Show Invisibles” bug on Macs which lack Color QuickDraw.
- Minor interface refinements to several dialog boxes.
- Find/Replace by styles now fully scriptable and recordable.
- Added more options to Save As file type popup menu.
- Dragging text files onto an open window inserts styles, pictures and sounds along with text.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.0.4
- Improved memory management in PPC version.
- Bundle bit set.
- Many improvements and additions to sample scripts thanks to Joel Burtsche!
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.0.3
- Much faster opening of large files. (Roman script)
- Improved speed of word counting. (Roman)
- Improved script handling of text ranges.
- ASCII popup menu displays keystrokes for all characters.
- Fixed AppleScript string comparison bug.
- Minor interface improvements.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.0.1
- Fixed bug noted when “Scripts” folder was missing. (Thanks to Jean Tantra!)
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- Tex-Edit Plus 2.0
- Extensive AppleScript support.
- Recordable.
- Scripts menu added. (Place compiled scripts in “Scripts” folder.)
- Support for Word Services added.
- Added “Show Invisibles” command.
- Added “Print One Copy” command.
- Added “Next File” button to “text not found” dialog.
- Added “Enter Replacement String” command (cmd-opt-e).
- Up/down arrow keys can now be used to scroll smoothly through a document.
- Default font is now the 12 point standard application font instead of 9 point Monaco.
- A read-only file can now replace a text file during a save.
- Fixed bug noted when trying to use speech before pref file has been created.
- Fixed cursor bug noted on older versions of MacOS.
- Fixed activation bug in Find dialog.
- Improved paragraph count.
- Fixed bug noted when user has not yet selected a printer in the Chooser.
- Fixed bug noted when changing Prefs with multiple windows open.
- Fixed off-by-one bug in Block Format line length calculation.
- Activated cmd-click of URLs in Help dialog.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.5
- Eliminated erroneous dialog noted when cancelling an Insert operation.
- Added separate “Modify Selection” command.
- Added “Min line length” adjustment to Strip commands to preserve tabular text.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.4
- The Strip CR/LF command now does a much better job of preserving paragraph formatting.
- The Wild Run placeholder will now substitute for up to 127 characters.
- Replacing large selections with a Wild Run character is now fixed.
- Fixed update bug in character count display.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.3
- Added ‘kind’ resource (for Finder). Rebuild desktop to see changes.
- Added ‘open’ resource (for Mac Easy Open).
- Updated B&W About dialog version number.
- Fixed bug noted when Auto-Save tries to save an untitled window in the background.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.2
- Replacing with a Wild Run character now enabled.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8.1
- Improved finding of non-roman characters with proper case handling.
- Fixed “unimplemented trap” bug seen with older Macs.
- Removed error message noted when using ASCII popup on read-only document.
- Preferred document creator is now remembered between launches.
- Quit Apple event no longer asks to come to foreground unless window needs saved.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.8
- Added ASCII popup menu to window frame.
- Added ASCII popup to Find/Replace dialog.
- Splash screen added. (Thank you Michael Rohde!)
- Greatly improved Preferences dialog layout.
- The text justification setting is saved within each document.
- Editable “Smart Quotes” substitutions in the Preferences dialog.
- New “Use Real Tabs” menu selection allows independent document tab activation.
- Preferences switch allows activation/deactivation of Text Services.
- Default justification is selectable in the Preferences dialog.
- Improved main event loop (faster cursor updates, etc.)
- Fixed bug in “Add CR” and “Block Format” command noted when entire line has no spaces.
- Added “Find In Next File” command.
- Added global “Find” command.
- Added global “Replace” command.
- Added a “Wild Run” character in the Find dialog as a variable length wildcard placeholder.
- The “Find Again” command is always active.
- Added “Save All” command.
- Fixed update bug in character count display.
- Convenient “Tab Options” dialog added.
- Fixed error dialog noted during launch when Help menu has been deliberately snuffed.
- No longer closes data fork when trying to open file which is in use by another application.
- Fixed bug opening occasional SimpleText read-only document.
- Added ability to open non-ttro SimpleText documents with pictures.
- Added “Reset” button to Preferences dialog.
- Added option to “Remember text selection” when document is saved.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.7.1
- Fixed cosmetic bug in page scroll function (seen when page scrolling About dialog).
- Fixed memory leak noted when cancelling time-consuming operations.
- Minor cursor display fix.
- Improved “Block Format” algorithm with respect to leading/trailing CRs.
- No longer forces synchronization of keyboards and fonts.
- Fixed bug (compiler-related) sometimes seen with 68000 machines.
- Added support for cmd-click of URLs.
- Added support for Get Data and Set Data Apple events.
- Faster initial display of Find/Replace dialog.
- The “Auto-Highlighting” menu selection is remembered between launches.
- The shift-delete shortcut can be turned on/off in the “Preferences” dialog.
- Improvements made to Strip CR/LF command to improve handling of multiple CRs.
- Saving in a plain/unstyled format no longer creates an empty resource fork.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.7
- Added “Replace multiple spaces with CR” to Modify dialog.
- Faster “Title Case” cmd.
- Faster “Close All” and “Quit” cmd.
- Pushing cancel button in Open dialog after launch no longer displays a blank window.
- Fixed obscure set of bugs seen when trying to open an already-open document.
- Fixed bug caused when invoking “Change Case” cmds with no windows open.
- Fixed bug in “Custom Window Size” preference.
- Fixed obscure zoom bug.
- Fixed bug involving Quick Modify submenu activation.
- Improved low memory handling.
- Fixed bug noted when trying to replace existing non-text doc during save.
- Added help menu item.
- When resizing “soft wrapped” window, text stays put.
- Option-delete/fwd delete deletes the previous/next word.
- Improved algorithm in Find “whole words only” option.
- Improved algorithm of various Change Case commands.
- Improved Add/Strip CR/LF algorithms.
- Fixed character count redraw bug.
- Improved Block Format algorithm for determining word breaks.
- Leading and trailing CRs are no longer automatically inserted by Block Format.
- Better support for double byte script systems (multiple internal changes).
- Fixed “feature” that allowed editing of Finder-locked files.
- Increased suggested shareware donation to $10. :-)
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.6.4
- New Quick Modify menu with various conveniently-located munging commands.
- Modify’s “line length” is remembered between launches and is used by Quick Modify commands.
- Added “Replace multiple spaces” command in Modify dialog to convert runs of spaces.
- Changed name of “Strip double spaces” command to clearer “Normalize sentence spacing.”
- New Preferences option allows you to launch Tex-Edit without showing any windows.
- Speech on/off setting now remembered between launches.
- Changed behavior of option-right/left arrow to conform with standard conventions.
- Printing routine is improved with better driver compatibility and faster printing of page ranges.
- Added ‘ttro’ BNDL resource to help Mac Easy Open find Tex-Edit when opening read-only docs.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.6.3
- Fixed bug causing problems on some 68000 Macs (thanks to Marco Piovanelli’s help!).
- Fixed redraw bug with soft-wrapped screen resizing and zooming.
- Improved Find dialog special character handling.
- Fixed bug in Windows menu.
- Fixed small bug with “Change Case” commands.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.6.2
- Fixed bug with 68K computers and some munging operations.
- Fixed bug with 68K computers opening pictures in ‘ttro’ documents.
- Fixed printing bug noted when printing pictures taller than a single page.
- Fixed small bug associated with shift-clicking to extend a replaced selection.
- Allows 1 point text size.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.6.1
- Improved (safer) file saving strategy.
- Save command no longer nukes document creation date, document custom icon, etc.
- Command-right/left arrows move cursor to beginning/end of line.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.6
- PowerPC native code (fat binary).
- Greatly improved Find/Replace speed on large files (both 68K and PPC versions).
- Significant speedups of most “munging” commands.
- Fixed cosmetic redraw bug in some dialogs.
- Improved memory management during sound playback.
- Eliminated screen garbage seen when printing under QuickDraw GX.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.5.4
- Fixed bug with “Word Caps” function.
- Fixed bug with “Change document creator” function.
- Fixed bug with oddly-named files and Windows menu.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.5.3
- Fixed crash when invoking “Open” or “Insert” without QuickTime installed.
- Fixed bug involving picture display in certain ttro (Read Only) documents.
- Disabled sound recording while hiliting read text.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.5.2
- First version using Metrowerk’s marvelous CodeWarrior compiler.
- Fixed bug when reading ttro document picture.
- Fixed bug when smartening double hyphens.
- Limited window width to text width to avoid wasted window space.
- Fixed zoom and grow behavior in a similar manner.
- Shows preview of text/picture in Open dialog.
- Fixed bug with About dialog and Help key.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.5.1
- Fixed minor bugs with pict selecting, auto-hiliting and cursor drawing.
- Fixed bug involving Save As Other file type in preferences dialog.
- Improved efficiency of temporary memory usage--runs well in minimal memory partition.
- Releases processor time efficiently when in background.
- Saved windows can’t re-appear offscreen (e.g., when changing monitor size).
- Drag a text or read-only document onto an open window to insert its text.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.5
- Final release version (1.1) of WASTE text engine implemented.
- Eliminated error dialog which showed up with “Open Selection” command.
- Adjusted maximum window size slightly.
- Proper handling of upper/lower case changes with non-Roman scripts.
- Strip diacriticals command now works accurately.
- Tab support added with adjustable tab spacing.
- Cut, copy, paste, insert, delete, drag & drop pictures and sounds.
- Copy pictures from SimpleText “read-only” documents.
- Triple click selects line instead of sentence.
- Changed some keyboard shortcuts--see documents.
- Improved undo/redo functionality.
- Undo menu item describes action to be undone/redone.
- Improved memory handling (smaller suggested memory allocation).
- Improved internal error handling.
- Added ability to turn on/off offscreen drawing and temporary memory use.
- Fixed bug with multiple monitor usage.
- Fixed bug with picture redrawing when text scrolled under “floating” window.
- Fixed various cosmetic buglets.
- Block Format Options dialog added with options to add leading/trailing line and longer header.
- Improved scrolling speed and “smooth” auto-scroll.
- Improved window resizing/redrawing.
- Easily create and save SimpleText read-only documents (with pictures).
- Stationery button in “Save As…” dialog.
- Various interface refinements--e.g. note up/down arrows on all numeric dialog fields.
- Added command key shortcuts to Word Count and Case Change commands.
- Insert sounds from any sound-containing file.
- Faster response to key presses.
- Inline input enabled.
- Default justification option added.
- Save as a PICT file.
- PICT bndl and icons added so that Tex-Edit is not forgotten by Macintosh Easy Open, etc.
- Voices arranged logically in voices menu.
- Default voice choice compatible with system-wide voice default (Speech Manager 1.4.1).
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.3.4
- Interrupt time-consuming operations with Command-Period.
- Improved “disk full” handling and messages.
- Improved handling of low memory conditions.
- Improved miscellaneous internal error handling.
- Added dialog to prevent accidental sound deletion.
- F1, F2, F3 and F4 function keys now implement Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste.
- Fixed picture update bug.
- Faster “Replace All” and “Modify” commands, especially on large files.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.3.3
- Added a wider variety of text wrapping options (Preferences dialog).
- Up to 40 windows can be opened (limited by RAM).
- Faster window resize/zoom when horizontal scroll active.
- Horizontal scrolling active by default.
- Fixed cursor positioning bug.
- Improved error handling.
- Fixed “Block Format” to function properly when Block Header is empty string.
- Fixed “Goto Line” bug.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.3.2
- Added opt-pageup/down and opt-shift-pageup/down shortcuts.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.3.1
- Fixed bug in Prefs dialog (wouldn’t set default window size to current window).
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.3
- Added wildcard search ability.
- Added style search ability.
- Added style replace ability.
- Improved triple/quad click performance.
- Improved replacement/modification speed for many operations.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.2.1
- Improved file handling in special cases.
- Improved “Undo” functionality.
- Improved speed with many large file modifications.
- Fixed “Block Format” bug.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.2
- Changed most dialogs to more versatile movable modal variety dialog boxes.
- Newer version of text engine (WASTE 1.1a4).
- Fixed bug with “Paste Unstyled” command.
- Fixed bug with Speech Settings dialog selections.
- I-beam cursor in dialog editable text areas.
- Fixed autoscroll bug.
- Fixed drag bug.
- Revised/improved “Find Again” behavior.
- Wider selection of font sizes allowed.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.1.1
- Fixed printing bug with QuickDraw printers (prints selection hiliting).
- Fixed bug with “Enter Selection” command.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.1
- Fixed font size bug when viewing “aberrant” styled text.
- Full (flush) text justification enabled.
- Shift-delete (instead of option-delete) mimics the forward delete key.
- Animated watch cursor.
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- Tex-Edit Plus 1.0
- Adds ability to open styled documents of unlimited size (RAM).
- System 7 required.
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- Tex-Edit 2.7.2 (current version of System 6-compatible text editor)
- Option-up/down arrow will move the insertion marker to the beginning/end of the line.
- Can copy and paste unstyled (plain) text.
- Fixed bug noted when dragging paragraphs a single character at a time.
- Improved cursor positioning after smart cut or delete.
- Proper cursor handling in read-only documents, allows Find Again and Read Starting at Cursor.
- Option key used to toggle menu selections (instead of shift key).
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- Tex-Edit 2.7.1
- Smart delete and smart forward delete implemented.
- Improved indented text alignment (on printout) using fractional character widths.
- Fixed caret redraw and printing bug.
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- Tex-Edit 2.7
- Added sentence and paragraph counts to the Word Count dialog.
- Can also count characters, words, etc. of selected text.
- Increase/decrease font size of selection even if text is not all the same size.
- Margin settings in Print Options dialog now bear passing resemblance to reality.
- Option-home will move the insertion marker to beginning of the file.
- Option-end will move the insertion marker to end of the file.
- Option-shift-home will select all text up to and including the current selection.
- Option-shift-end will select all text from the current selection to the end of the file.
- Fixed bug when pasting large blocks of text.
- Page number prints using default window font.
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- Tex-Edit 2.6
- Added selection and character count to window frame.
- Now able to search read-only (ttro) documents using Find command.
- Word Count now active in read-only documents.
- Added ability to select text in read-only documents for dragging or copying.
- Read aloud any portion of a read-only document.
- Stop sound playback with command-period.
- Fixed cosmetic bug causing incomplete redrawing of background selection outlines.
- Fixed obscure cosmetic bug in Insert command.
- Fixed crash that could occur trying to load or play large sound files.
- Improved error handling with large text files.
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- Tex-Edit 2.5.2
- Sound playback improved, memory handling improved during playback.
- Changed command keys slightly.
- Fixed bug which caused selection mark to print on some QuickDraw printers.
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- Tex-Edit 2.5.1
- Sounds now play asynchronously (in background).
- Changed Block Quote to Block Format in Special menu.
- Adjusted behavior of Block Format command to increase all-around usefulness.
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- Tex-Edit 2.5
- Drag Manager fully implemented for styled and plain text.
- Bug fixed involving opening large files.
- Improved information box in Speech Settings dialog.
- Fixed obscure menu hilite bug.
- Larger find/replace strings accommodated.
- Dialog positioning improved and Sound menu changed slightly.
- Save as eWorld styled text document.
- Uses sound manager to add sound to any document.
- Can create Finder-compatible sound files.
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- Tex-Edit 2.4.2
- Added more voice information to Speech Settings dialog.
- Now can receive background events.
- Fixed minor bugs in window redrawing, cursor hiding.
- Option-delete mimics the effect of forward delete key (extended keyboard).
- Fixed bug with prefs file (Speech might not work until old prefs file was deleted).
- Enabled outline hiliting of inactive windows.
- Resources preloaded to decrease number of disk accesses necessary for powerbook users.
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- Tex-Edit 2.4.1
- Small corrections/improvements in manual and About dialog.
- Several cosmetic bugs.
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- Tex-Edit 2.4
- Find/Replace and Print Options switch settings are saved in Prefs file.
- Command key equivalents added to Change Case menu.
- Speech Menu changed, command keys added, more logical arrangement.
- Speech Settings now display voice comment information.
- Speech pitch modulation is now adjustable.
- Read entire doc or from current position “in the background”.
- Hilite doc by word or by sentence as it is being read, new submenu.
- LF->CR command for converting Etext/UNIX docs.
- Insert pagebreak (formfeed) for control of printing pagination.
- Formfeed button in Find dialog.
- Blocking header/length adjustable in new Prefs dialog.
- Default window size adjustable in Prefs dialog, presets for 60, 80, 100 chars/line.
- Open large files into multiple windows automatically.
- Open and format large Etext documents with a single command.
- Number of windows now limited to 20 (or RAM).
- Fixed the behavior of shift-cursor and shift-option-cursor selections.
- Triple click improved.
- Smart cut/paste improved.
- Misc cosmetic bugs.
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- Tex-Edit 2.3.1
- Reads and writes SimpleText files.
- Greatly expanded documentation.
- Cosmetic bug fixes.
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- Tex-Edit 2.3
- Added full TeachText emulation.
- Also emulates the new SimpleText.
- View, print and speak TeachText and SimpleText read-only files, including pictures.
- Ability to view and print PICT files and copy a selection.
- Autoscroll PICT file during selection.
- Support for a Tex-Edit read-only document type.
- Fixed the “Change file creator” switch in the Prefs dialog.
- Save settings in Modify dialog between dialog executions.
- Reset button added to Modify dialog.
- Option-arrow moves cursor to next word.
- Option-shift-arrow selects next word.
- Quad click selects paragraph.
- New command to strip diacritical marks.
- Miscellaneous bugs fixed.
- New icons (again).
- Improved program scrolling and typing execution speed.
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- Tex-Edit 2.2
- Added some TeachText read-only capability (not released).
- Revision history of prior versions shrouded in mists of antiquity…
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- Planned Improvements
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- Show pagebreaks.