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Bean
Uncluttered word processor and rich text editor.
Version: 2.4.1
Bug?
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Splunge Thursday, April 16 2009 @ 01:42 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
I'm unable to open a text document, select a few words, and change the selection to italic without the entire document changing (same for boldface, underline, etc.). I've tried this on several files with the same result. Am I missing something, or is this a serious shortcoming/bug on Bean's part?
Comments
Bug? - Kent Durvin
If the document is .txt, the font and style will affect the whole document. If you save as Rich Text format, .rtf or .rtfd, the style will affect only what you select, as you would expect. Most word processors let you modify the style, and then tell you that if you save as text, you will lose all of the formatting. There are several ways this could be handled:1. Let you format and then after you have done it, tell you you can't save it to this document type.
2. Don't let you apply formatting at all. You could not change the size of the type on screen.
3. If you try to apply formatting to a text document, show a dialog the first time, and explain the situation.
It is surprising the first time you see it, but it makes sense.
Thursday, May 14 2009 @ 05:57 AM PDT
Bug? - jnrh
If you want to apply bold, italics, etc. to different parts of the document, you need to re-save your plain text document as rich text and then make your changes. Plain text documents are just that, plain text (letters, numbers, punctuation, etc.). That's why the changes are being applied globally to plain text documents.Reply to This
Saturday, April 18 2009 @ 04:04 PM PDT