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Rhapsody Developer Release Notes:
TextEdit

TextEdit is a word-processing application based on the Yellow Box text system. In addition to providing the standard text-editing features, TextEdit:

• Introduces "Wrap to Page" mode. This mode causes the document to be wrapped to the current page size (as opposed to the window size), and thus shows you a simple WYSIWYG representation of your pages. This mode also allows zooming.
  
  
• Supports new text-object features such as hyphenation, kerning, ligatures, and baseline offsets.
  
  
• Supports application services so that other applications can display text files through the Services menu.
  
  
• Includes the capability for to reading and writing plain text files in different eight-bit character encodings and Unicode. Coupled with the Kanji support in the new text object, TextEdit allows you to read, write, and edit Kanji files created by OPENSTEP 3.xJ or OPENSTEP 4.xJ. (For this feature you need Kanji fonts and the input manager.)

The Open and Save panels allow you to choose alternate file encodings from a pop-up list. The default item, "Default," tells TextEdit to use either the default eight-bit encoding of the system or Unicode.You can set the default setting of this pop-up list through the Preferences panel.

TextEdit source files are installed with the development environment in NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit/TextEdit.

Known Problems in This Release

Reference	None
Problem	Encoding pop-up accessory view in Open and Save panels is not available in Yellow Box on Windows NT 3.51.
Description	Because accessory views aren't supported under Windows NT 3.51, there is no encoding pop-up list in the Open and Save panels.
Workaround	You can use the pop up list in the Preferences panel to set the default encoding, which is then used when files are opened or saved.

Also refer to the Application Kit release notes for current text system bugs.