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Mojave Spotlight bug: Dictionaries don’t do Dark Mode

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Look in the Dictionary app, and entries are fine in Dark Mode. But access the same content via Spotlight, and they become unreadable. Why?

March 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now opens and saves plain text and HTML as well as Rich Text

Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.

December 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

TextEdit 1.14: Not the Dark Mode you’d expect

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Not mentioned in the release notes, the new version of TextEdit is a bold attempt to provide a Dark Mode which is infuriating, confusing, and inconsistent. Avoid it.

December 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Want more from your Rich Text editor? Here’s DelightEd 1.0

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Gets your Rich Text documents working properly in Light and Dark modes, and extensive support for editing, including live word and character count.

December 4, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Second release candidate of DelightEd

Now lets you set your own default font and size applied to all new windows, and offers better reduced contrast appearance in both Dark and Light modes.

December 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Using and hacking styles in TextEdit and DelightEd

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How to extend TextEdit to create bi-modal text, and add more styles to DelightEd, TextEdit, and other apps. And how to use Font Traits.

November 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now has continuous word and character counts and help

First candidate for a final release, this counts the words and characters in your Rich Text as you type or edit them.

November 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd, the most flexible Rich Text editor, supports links and more

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Also fixes Endarken and Enlighten for changing the colour of Rich Text and its behaviour in Light and Dark Modes.

November 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd edges forward towards full release

A reduced contrast option should make Dark Mode easier on the eyes, and there’s additional help for converting text to work fully in both Light and Dark modes.

November 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

Making documents look good in both appearance modes

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When you need to create a document which displays properly in both modes, Rich Text is the answer – here’s how to get it right first time.

November 14, 2018 Language, Macs, Technology

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