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Product Description:
Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the Internet.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.3) |
Features: | (4.3) |
Support: | (2.7) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.7) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.7) |
Price: | (3.0) |
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works with Snow Leopard - Version: 4.9.8, 8/30/2009 06:00PM PST
PBguy
Haven't tested exhaustively, but opening old files, running scripts that process text works OK.
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- works with Snow Leopard
Needs to be updated - Version: 4.9.8, 3/17/2009 11:44AM PST
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bgrubb
Tex-Edit has been a long favorite of mine but it is being rapidly being taken over by programs that have been updated. Bean which is Cocoa native, open source, free. and able to handle formats Tex-Edit goes 'Huh?' regarding has started replacing this program.
As for Tom Bender writing Tex-Edit in Pascal that should be no barrier to Intel native code as it appears FreePascel 2.2.2+Xtools 2.x and GNU Pascal 3.4.5u2+Xtools 3.x can both produce Intel native code.
As for Tom Bender writing Tex-Edit in Pascal that should be no barrier to Intel native code as it appears FreePascel 2.2.2+Xtools 2.x and GNU Pascal 3.4.5u2+Xtools 3.x can both produce Intel native code.
Supported, brilliant program, but sadly not Intel coded - Version: 4.9.8, 1/22/2009 01:05AM PST
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zunipus
Sorry Zoom Addict, but Tex-Edit Plus is very much supported. I've personally been in touch with Tom Bender, the developer, a number of times. His website is still on the net:
http://www.tex-edit.com/
The problem is with VersionTracker who messed up their URL forwarding for the Developer Site. I have notified them of this problem (among others, sigh).
The one fault with Tex-Edit Plus is that Tom writes it in Pascal. To compile it to run on Mac OS X he uses a 3rd party tool that unfortunately has no clue how to compile for Intel CPUs. Therefore, the app has to run in Rosetta. Bleh. This means that when Tex-Edit Plus boots you might as well go take a leak. I've chatted with Tom Bender about this and at this point he defends its boot time as not detrimental. Oh well.
In any case, once the program is booted it runs brilliantly as ever. This is a 5 STAR program deluxe, even to this day. I love it! It is my default text program, just as it was 10 year ago. Despite the snoozy Rosetta boot up, it does everything I want for general text purposes. I often freak people when I tell them that I never, ever use any of the snazzy schmantzy text editors, like Word (puke puke) etc. Instead I enjoy writing up my text in Tex-Edit Plus then bringing it into a page layout program. I used to use PageMaker. These days I use Pages from Apple's iWork (which is indeed a nice basic page layout program, among other things).
Tom Bender has added to and smoothed out this program beautifully for many years. It hasn't been updated in about a year and a half at this point, but so what! It doesn't need anything more (besides compiling for Intel, nag nag nag).
Read up on its abilities at Tom's website. Check out the pile of scripts you can add on to it. Check out the Automator support. Check out the contextual menu. Check out the simple conversion among DOS, UNIX and Mac text formats. Check out the ability to merge sound, graphics and movies into a document. Check out the dead cheap price for this thing! I've paid for it 3 (THREE) times over these many years just to thank Tom for keeping it up to date and terrific. Grep, Tex-Aid, Droplets, Text-To-Speech that includes voice modulation, WYSIWYG font selection, ruler, mark up, word count, line numbering, tool bar, script tools, more stuff than I ever need or use. Bravo Tom!
And if you don't pay up, there's NO NAG! Just use it for free. Feel guilty, but just use it.
(Hint: When you pay your shareware fee, coax Tom some more to go Intel! Couldn't hurt).
http://www.tex-edit.com/
The problem is with VersionTracker who messed up their URL forwarding for the Developer Site. I have notified them of this problem (among others, sigh).
The one fault with Tex-Edit Plus is that Tom writes it in Pascal. To compile it to run on Mac OS X he uses a 3rd party tool that unfortunately has no clue how to compile for Intel CPUs. Therefore, the app has to run in Rosetta. Bleh. This means that when Tex-Edit Plus boots you might as well go take a leak. I've chatted with Tom Bender about this and at this point he defends its boot time as not detrimental. Oh well.
In any case, once the program is booted it runs brilliantly as ever. This is a 5 STAR program deluxe, even to this day. I love it! It is my default text program, just as it was 10 year ago. Despite the snoozy Rosetta boot up, it does everything I want for general text purposes. I often freak people when I tell them that I never, ever use any of the snazzy schmantzy text editors, like Word (puke puke) etc. Instead I enjoy writing up my text in Tex-Edit Plus then bringing it into a page layout program. I used to use PageMaker. These days I use Pages from Apple's iWork (which is indeed a nice basic page layout program, among other things).
Tom Bender has added to and smoothed out this program beautifully for many years. It hasn't been updated in about a year and a half at this point, but so what! It doesn't need anything more (besides compiling for Intel, nag nag nag).
Read up on its abilities at Tom's website. Check out the pile of scripts you can add on to it. Check out the Automator support. Check out the contextual menu. Check out the simple conversion among DOS, UNIX and Mac text formats. Check out the ability to merge sound, graphics and movies into a document. Check out the dead cheap price for this thing! I've paid for it 3 (THREE) times over these many years just to thank Tom for keeping it up to date and terrific. Grep, Tex-Aid, Droplets, Text-To-Speech that includes voice modulation, WYSIWYG font selection, ruler, mark up, word count, line numbering, tool bar, script tools, more stuff than I ever need or use. Bravo Tom!
And if you don't pay up, there's NO NAG! Just use it for free. Feel guilty, but just use it.
(Hint: When you pay your shareware fee, coax Tom some more to go Intel! Couldn't hurt).
