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Category Archive: Language

Ruby text in Pages

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A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.

January 11, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How to use offline translation in Monterey

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How you can use both online and offline translation in Monterey, including a demonstrating translating Arabic into English.

November 10, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Podofyllin version 1.1 introduces lightweight bookmarks

New ‘marks’, lightweight bookmarks to make navigating large documents easier. They aren’t written out to the PDF document, though, leaving it intact.

September 25, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

How to compare two PDF documents

We often need to compare two documents, such as legal agreements or revisions of a report. How can we do this if they’re PDFs?

August 14, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Analysing natural languages with Nalaprop

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Identifies, parses and analyses text in any of 8 languages supported by Mojave and later. Ideal for learners, word frequency analysis, and much more.

August 10, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

There/their/they’re goes the Cupertino

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Driven crazy by spurious spelling corrections? Don’t get mad with your spell-checker, train it.

August 5, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Forming unusual characters using Unicode and typography

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How can you create a new accented or other character which doesn’t appear in Unicode? It depends on whether you want it in text, or PDF.

August 2, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Temporary restrictions on comments

I regret that I have just had to tighten restrictions on making comments across this blog. Because one […]

May 25, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

How WordPress comments and Property Lists can trip you up

When you write a comment to an article here, or edit a Property List, you’re editing XML. Two or three characters won’t work properly.

May 22, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Explainer: Unicode, normalization and APFS

How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.

May 8, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

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