TextEdit is a simple, open source Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology. Before the term open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; open source word processor A word processor is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of printable material and text editor 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, first featured in NeXT Next, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets. NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after his forced resignation from Apple. NeXT introduced the first NeXT's NEXTSTEP NeXTSTEP is the object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer to run on its range of proprietary workstation computers, such as the NeXTcube, and later, other computer architectures and OPENSTEP OpenStep was an object-oriented application programming interface specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principally developed by NeXT with Sun Microsystems. OPENSTEP (all capitalized) was a specific implementation of the OpenStep API developed by NeXT.. While originally built on a. It is now distributed with 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, Mac OS X has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. It is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final release of the "classic" Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system since 198 since Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite's acquisition of NeXT, and available as a GNUstep GNUstep is a free software implementation of Cocoa Objective-C libraries (called frameworks), widget toolkit, and application development tools not only for Unix-like operating systems, but also for Microsoft Windows. It is part of the GNU Project application for other Unix Unix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit-compatible operating systems such as Linux Linux refers to the family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel. Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers and video game consoles, to mainframes and supercomputers. Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers; in 2009 it held a server market share.[1] It is powered by Apple Advanced Typography and has many advanced typography features.
It replaces the text editor of previous Macintosh The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface operating systems An operating system is the software on a computer that manages the way different programs use its hardware, and regulates the ways that a user controls the computer. Operating systems are found on almost any device that contains a computer with multiple programs—from cellular phones and video game consoles to supercomputers and web servers. Some, SimpleText SimpleText is the native text editor for the Classic Mac OS. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting , fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application. In later versions it also gained additional read only display capabilities for PICT files, as well as other Mac OS built-in formats like Quickdraw GX and. TextEdit reads and writes documents in Rich Text Format The Rich Text Format is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation in 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange, Rich Text Format Directory Rich Text Format Directory, also known as 'RTFD , or Rich Text Format with Attachments, is a primary document format of TextEdit, an application native to NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X which has also been ported to other versions of Unix. The file format is based on the Rich Text Format, but can also include "attachments" such as images, plain text In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text, and HTML HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content formats, and can open (but not save) old SimpleText files. It also has access to the operating system's built-in spell-checking In computing, a spell checker is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine service. The version included in Mac OS X v10.3 Mac OS X version 10.3 “Panther” is the fourth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. It followed Mac OS X v10.2 “Jaguar” and preceded Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger”. Apple released Panther on October 24, 2003 added the ability to read and write documents in Word format, and the version in Mac OS X v10.4 Mac OS X Tiger is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Tiger was released to the public on 29 April 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X Panther (version 10.3), which had been released 18 months earlier. Tiger was succeeded by Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5) on 26 the ability to read and write Word XML documents The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats (or XML schemas) introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007. Microsoft Office XP introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents. The version included in Mac OS X v10.5 Mac OS X Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Leopard was released on 26 October 2007 as the successor of Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4), and is available in two variants: a desktop version suitable for personal computers, and a server version, Mac OS X Server. Steve includes read and write support for Office Open XML Office Open XML is a ZIP-based file format originally developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The Office Open XML specification has been standardised both by Ecma and, in a later edition, by ISO and IEC as an International Standard (ISO/IEC 29500) and OpenDocument Text The Open Document Format for Office Applications is an XML-based file format for representing electronic documents such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The version included in Mac OS X v10.6 Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the seventh and current major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server certified Unix operating system added automatic spelling correction, support for data detectors, and text transformations.
Formatted text, justification, and even the inclusion of graphics and other multimedia elements are supported by TextEdit, as well as the ability to read and write to different character encodings A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data through telecommunication networks or storage of text in computers, including Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 107,000 (UTF-8 UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set, but unlike them it has the special property of being backwards-compatible with ASCII. For this reason, it is steadily becoming the dominant character encoding for files, e-mail, web pages, and and UTF-16 In computing, UTF-16 is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, capable of encoding the entire Unicode repertoire, by mapping each character (or code point) to a sequence of 16-bit code units. For characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) the encoding is a single code unit equal to the code point. For characters in the other). TextEdit automatically adjusts letter spacing in addition to word spacing while justifying text. This letter spacing feature is usually only found in higher end desktop publishing Desktop publishing combines a personal computer and WYSIWYG page layout software to create publication documents on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local multifunction peripheral output and distribution programs. The unique letter spacing however can't be adjusted or controlled as it can in a desktop publishing program. TextEdit does not support multiple columns of text.
The high resolution TextEdit 1.5 icon for Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard) features an extract from Apple's Think Different "Think Different" is an advertising slogan created for Apple Computer in 1997 by the Los Angeles office of advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. It was used in a famous television commercial, several print advertisements, and several television advertisements for Apple products. Apple's use of the slogan was discontinued with the start of ad campaign.
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Apple distributes TextEdit's source code In computer science, source code is any collection of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language. Source code is the means most often used by programmers to specify the actions to be performed by a computer as part of the documentation of its integrated development environment An integrated development environment also known as integrated design environment or integrated debugging environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of: (IDE) Xcode Xcode is a suite of tools for developing software on Mac OS X, developed by Apple. Xcode 3.2, the latest major version, is bundled free with Mac OS X v10.6, but is not installed by default. Instead it must be installed from the Mac OS X DVD, or downloaded from the Apple website. The version that is currently available is 3.2.3 that comes with iOS. On the internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and, the source code to a version of TextEdit enhanced to demonstrate the calling of Quartz Composer The Apple Developer Tools are a suite of software tools from Apple to aid in making software titles for the Mac OS X platform. They come on the Snow Leopard installation CD as part of the Xcode suite, but aren't installed by default compositions from the Cocoa Cocoa is one of Apple Inc.'s native object-oriented application program environments for the Mac OS X operating system. It is one of five major APIs available for Mac OS X; the others are Carbon, POSIX , X11 and Java API An Application Programming Interface is an interface implemented by a software program which enables it to interact with other software. It is similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. An API is implemented by applications, libraries, and operating systems to determine their vocabularies and can be found at Apple's developer website. The following quote is from the characteristic part of the New BSD-compliant license text included in the source code:
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See also
- List of word processors
- Comparison of word processors
- Office Open XML software
- OpenDocument software
References
- ^ "Backbone—A GNUstep based desktop environment". http://www.nongnu.org/backbone/apps.html. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
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Since I m talking about TextEdit I ll point out that I just discovered the capability to create tables and lists using the Format Text menu See example click for larger If you do a lot of writing but you think that Word is like trying to water your flowers with a fire hydrant you should give TextEdit a try I have also used Bean another great word
