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?
Rich Text
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?
A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
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.
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.
Finally out of beta, this Rich Text editor supports unusual features such as interlinear text, and is a Universal App.
Thanks to Michele, who discovered one of those rare Unicode UTF-16 text files, found that DelightEd couldn’t make […]
What are the differences, what can you do with each of the two formats, and when should you use them?
It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.
Bringing code integrity checking at each app launch, and automatic checking and download of future updates.
The Eclectic Light Company 