The journey from single-document and basic styles, through the lightweight word processor brought to Mac OS X from NeXT.
TextEdit
How to set up your own styles in TextEdit, DelightEd or another editor using macOS’s features. Use them to make laying out styled text easier and more powerful.
User content shouldn’t have its colours changed according to the appearance mode. So why do TextEdit and QuickLook thumbnails change custom text colours?
For 34 years, Macs were known for rendering black text on a white background. Then came Dark mode, and five years later some apps still can’t cope with it.
A new version of this Rich Text editor now remembers its appearance mode, and uses that as the default mode for documents too.
Finally out of beta, this Rich Text editor supports unusual features such as interlinear text, and is a Universal App.
Is it worth entering author name, title, keywords and so on in a document’s Properties?
It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.
TextEdit will happily trash an HTML file when you convert it to text – without any good reason, other than an engineer not being familiar with macOS.
A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.
The Eclectic Light Company 