Tex-Edit is a handy text editor that fills the gap between Appleàs bare-bones TeachText and a full-featured word processor. It is particularly useful for formatting text which is transmitted to and from a BBS.
This document lists all available commands, ordered as they appear in the menus. At the end are some trouble-shooting tips and set-up hints. The accompanying Welcome to Tex-Edit! document discusses several useful features in detail and lists some power-user shortcuts. And donàt forget Tex-Editàs balloon help facility! Tex-Edit is ShareWare ($5).
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Apple Menu
About Tex-Edit²
Here you will find a few helpful hints as well as instructions on how to contact me for suggestions or bug reports.
File Menu
New
This opens a new blank document window. Up to 20 windows can be open simultaneously, depending on Tex-Editàs memory allocation. To increase Tex-Editàs memory allocation, enter a new ¼preferred size½ in the Finderàs Get Info dialog box. You will need to add about 50K per extra window.
Open²/Open Any²
Use this command to pick the TEXT or PICT document you wish to open. If the text exceeds 32K, you will be asked to select a 32K portion of the document. You may also open the file into multiple consecutively-numbered windows (split on paragraph boundaries). This allows you to view, speak and print large files.
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Electronic—text (etext) documents are prepared by ¼Project Gutenberg½ of the Illinois Benedictine College. Project Gutenberg is working to make a large number of public domain texts available as etexts. Large documents opened as ¼etext½ can subsequently be closed with a single option-click in the top windowàs close box.
If you wish to view a non-TEXT document, such as a Normal Word document, hold down the option key before choosing this command. (Technically, Tex-Edit only opens the ¼data fork½ of the chosen file.) You may notice some strange characters embedded in the text. (For example: ¼ 4 4 2Real Mac users do it with