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From: AES on 21 Mar 2010 12:15 This is a user report which is totally summed up in the Subject: line. If it helps anyone reading it, it helps them. Expanded version: For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features it would be really great. People kept responding: switch to Bean. I finally made the switch. It's definitely worth the small learning curve; I should have done it long ago. [For the record, this is on 10.4.11; I'll make the switch to Leopard/ Snow Leopard eventually also.]
From: Scotto on 21 Mar 2010 14:53 On 2010-03-21 11:15:28 -0500, AES said: > This is a user report which is totally summed up in the Subject: line. > If it helps anyone reading it, it helps them. Thanks, I'll try it. Nice GUI. -- Scotto
From: Davoud on 21 Mar 2010 16:31 AES wrote: > This is a user report which is totally summed up in the Subject: line. You left out the "IMO." Without such a disclaimer one is sermonizing. > If it helps anyone reading it, it helps them. > > Expanded version: For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > it would be really great. I'd have probably said "Switch to Pages of MS Word." > People kept responding: switch to Bean. I finally made the switch. It's > definitely worth the small learning curve; I should have done it long > ago. > > [For the record, this is on 10.4.11; Then you don't know about the current version of TextEdit, do you? > I'll make the switch to Leopard/ > Snow Leopard eventually also.] After the bugs are worked out? The rest of us will probably be on OS XV by the time you "catch up" :) -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 21 Mar 2010 19:30 AES wrote: > This is a user report which is totally summed up in the Subject: line. > If it helps anyone reading it, it helps them. > > Expanded version: For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > it would be really great. > > People kept responding: switch to Bean. I finally made the switch. It's > definitely worth the small learning curve; I should have done it long > ago. > > [For the record, this is on 10.4.11; I'll make the switch to Leopard/ > Snow Leopard eventually also.] Bean /is/ fast and rock solid on 10.4.x, but some of the features are not available when using Tiger. Swith to it also on 10.5.x and 10.6.x and you'll gain the full features and even more speed and flexibility! - Alone the RegEx search engine is worth the money. It is the fastest ever search engine I've been using. I donot know what James does with it, since the engine should be the same as in TextEdit, but real life gives quite a lot faster and better results with Bean. [I know Bean is free.:-)]. I use Bean as my textprocessor number 2 - right after the absolute primary number 1 = NisusWriter Pro.:-) - The speed, stability and compatibility was the main reason for me to choose it as my secondary text app, and the next was that it also is fully Text-To-Speech compatible. This was also the reason for me to make the Danish translation at first, so that any visually impaired Mac user also could get a good and reliable textprocessor - even if they need to use the speech system in OS X. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 21 Mar 2010 19:54
Davoud wrote: > AES wrote: >> This is a user report which is totally summed up in the Subject: line. > > You left out the "IMO." Without such a disclaimer one is sermonizing. And what about an overall rating of 4,8 out of 5,0? - I think this tells a lot! >> If it helps anyone reading it, it helps them. >> >> Expanded version: For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my >> primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about >> how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features >> it would be really great. > > I'd have probably said "Switch to Pages of MS Word." Pages? - This is about the worst ever piece of crap0 Apple ever has released as a socalled 'text processor'.:-(! - I've been forced to use it (Pages 09) for a while to translate a large userguide containing both text, tables, graphics and sheets, auto indexing etc. and with lots of internal links and cross references..., and this is some of the worst experiences I've ever had with a text processor, - slow, unstable, poor compatibility, very poor spell checking, unreliable hypehing and much, much more. And if you happened to move a link to either the previous or next page and hit the 'Save' the link is just gone somewhere in space. - Here is infact a point where TextEdit is far much better than Pages, - you can move around with text add/remove or whatever, but once a link is set, it is kept.....! >> People kept responding: switch to Bean. I finally made the switch. It's >> definitely worth the small learning curve; I should have done it long >> ago. >> >> [For the record, this is on 10.4.11; > > Then you don't know about the current version of TextEdit, do you? I do! - And Bean is heads in front of that app as well! Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |