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From: denn@violet.berkeley.edu (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Text editor help
Summary: TE and the Script Manager
Keywords: TextEdit, Tabs, Script Manager
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Date: 5 Oct 88 17:14:28 GMT
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In article <3845@Portia.Stanford.EDU> duggie@Jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt) writes:
>For exercise I have been writing a replacement for textedit which
>supports tabs.  I haven't looked at capps' prime, and don't have any
>means of editing files that are not all in memory.  I'm planning to
>remove the 32K limit, support the script manager, and not crash when I
>run out of memory.  I haven't tackled multiple styles/fonts/sizes etc.
>It a substantial job but not that big.  I've been at it about a month,
>and am about 90% complete except for debugging (you may snicker quietly).
>
	I, for one, would very much like to see this when you feel it is
stable enough to let out the door!

>Tabs are tricky.  Who knows what tabs mean when you mix left-to-right
>and right-to-left text (arabic)?  What standards are there for tabs
>that are not identically spaced?  Inquiring minds want to know.
>
	I'm not sure if there are 'standards' for this type of activity, but
there are applications out there (not in the states though) that support TABS
and the Script Manager (ie. Script Manager compat word processors!), so they
must have some way of doing it!

>Anyway, one suspects Apple will come out with something to support multiple
>scripts, if they are serious about the script manager.  Whether they support
>tabs, columns, superscript, etc, however, is another question.  I guess
>they have to leave something for people to make money at...
>
	Well, I doubt that Apple will be coming out with a word processor of
its own (or even improving TextEdit much) but TextEdit as it stands now is
'sort-of' script manager compatable.  The old TextEdit (one font, etc.) is
SM Compat and works just fine - true you only get one script - but...  HOWEVER
the new Styled TE is NOT fully SM compat (but they are working on it :-)

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