To have the delete key behave the same whether or not the shift key is down, click here.
To print a page number at the bottom of each page, click here.
To single space (normal), click here.
To separate each printed line with a blank line, click here. The actual document is unaffected.
Enter the right margin here.
Enter the left margin here.
Enter the bottom margin here.
Enter the distance between the top of the page and the text.
Prints the selected text.
Enter the delay between auto-saves (1-99 minutes) here.
Enter the maximum character width of each block-formatted line. (20-200 characters.)
Enter the characters to appear in front of each block-formatted line here. (0-15 characters.)
Select the default size for new windows. You may choose 60, 80 or 100 character width (Monaco 9) or the size of the top active window.
Select the default font size for new documents.
Select the default font for new documents.
Enter the number of spaces substituted for each tab here.
Enter the 4 character file creator code here. For example, entering 'MSWD' will cause Tex-Edit to produce MS Word text documents.
To stagger document windows as they are opened, click here.
To re-open document windows to their previous size and location, click here.
To cut and delete only the exact text selection, click here.
To normalize spacing when cutting, pasting and deleting whole words, click here.
Enter the text line that should follow the block-formatted text here.
Select the desired width at which you want the text to "wrap". Use "Soft Wrap" to align the right text margin with any window size. The other choices will activate the horizontal scrollbar.
To avoid alteration of tab characters, click here.
To have Tex-Edit replace tab characters with spaces as you type, click here.
To avoid changing the file creator during saves, click here.
To change the file creator of saved documents, click here. The Finder uses this creator attribute to decide which application to launch when you double click a document.
To avoid alteration of quote characters, click here.
To have Tex-Edit translate plain quotes to typographer quotes as you type, click here. (Typographer quotes may not be recognized by non-Mac systems.)
To mimic the action of the Extended Keyboard's forward delete key by using the shift-delete key combination, click here.
These choices specify Tex-Edit's first action when launched. "Show Blank Document" will show an empty window, "Show Open… Dialog" will show the standard file picker, "Run Startup Script" will run the script named "Startup", and "Nothing" will do nothing.
To close this dialog without saving changes, click here.
To close this dialog and save all changes (to the Prefs file), click here.
Enter the font point size (1-256) you wish to use here. A sample of this size text appears below.
To close this dialog and ignore changes, click here.
To apply this font size to your text selection, click here.
To avoid stripping accent markings, click here.
To strip all accents from foreign language characters, click here.
To ignore spaces between sentences, click here.
To convert all double spaces between sentences to single spaces, click here.
To convert double hyphens (--) to and from typographic em dashes, make a selection from this popup menu.
To convert three periods (...) to and from typographic ellipses, make a selection from this popup menu.
To convert 'fi' and 'fl' to and from their typographic ligatures, make a selection from this popup menu. Some fonts do not include these special characters.
To convert straight quotes to and from typographic (curly) quotes, make a selection from this popup menu.
To ignore high ASCII characters, click here.
To remove all characters with an ASCII value over 127, click here. (This will remove all special typographic and foreign language characters.)
To ignore trailing spaces, click here.
To remove spaces and tabs from the end of each line, click here.
To ignore leading spaces, click here.
To remove spaces and tabs from the beginning of each line, click here.
