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Text file formats

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?

December 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

How Rich Text can vanish in QuickLook

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You preview a major Rich Text document, which QuickLook shows as completely empty. Has something terrible happened, or is it just a four year-old bug?

August 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

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 restore Spotlight search of Rich Text files

Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.

May 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing a Spotlight bug in Big Sur: failure to index RTF content

Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.

February 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

DelightEd 2.0 is now a Universal App

Finally out of beta, this Rich Text editor supports unusual features such as interlinear text, and is a Universal App.

August 6, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

DelightEd version 2.0b4 can now read more Unicode text

Thanks to Michele, who discovered one of those rare Unicode UTF-16 text files, found that DelightEd couldn’t make […]

February 21, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Rich Text documents: RTF and RTFD

What are the differences, what can you do with each of the two formats, and when should you use them?

July 30, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apple, meet WYSIWYG; it’s the way Macs used to work

It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.

July 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updates for DelightEd and Podofyllin

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Bringing code integrity checking at each app launch, and automatic checking and download of future updates.

June 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

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