All about plain text, rich text, RTFD, .doc, .docx, HTML, webarchive, WordML, ODT and Pages formats, and how much space they take.
HTML
There are now 5 options, saving to HTML, webarchive, PNG image, and two variants of PDF. Which should you use to keep a record of a web page?
From GML in 1969 came SGML, then in 1998 XML 1.0 was released. This was used to set out property lists in Mac OS X, and more recently have been stored in binary format.
How can you use San Francisco, the system font for macOS and Apple’s other OSes? An example traced through from macOS internals to PDF and HTML.
Swift source code to accompany the article on SwiftUI on macOS: text, rich text, markdown, html and PDF views.
Trying to display formatted text in plain text, markdown, rich text, HTML, and PDF using SwiftUI and in AppKit/WebKit views within SwiftUI.
What’s the difference between plain text, marked-up plain text, and rich text? How can I tell them apart, and how do they work?
How should you keep copies of web pages: HTML source, Webarchive, or PDF? Which is the better way to make PDFs in Safari? And what about archive copies?
Customising WordPress to lay out source code turned into HTML by Codye.
Why should anyone still want to work with email messages in text? Here’s why, and how you can benefit too.
The Eclectic Light Company 