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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

Efficient resilient storage

Storage has to be reliable, efficient and resilient. However, efficiency and resilience oppose one another. What’s the best solution? New file formats, CRC in the file system, or what?

May 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Property lists and preferences

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They’re XML, structured into dictionaries and arrays containing key-value pairs. Preference plists are managed, and need special treatment.

July 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

How WordPress comments and Property Lists can trip you up

When you write a comment to an article here, or edit a Property List, you’re editing XML. Two or three characters won’t work properly.

May 22, 2021 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The importance of document repair

Have you lost any precious files lately? Old movies of your kids when they were young, perhaps. Wouldn’t it be good to be able to recover them?

March 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Look it up in Dictionary

The macOS Dictionary app may appear dull and unnecessary, but gives offline access to reputable dictionaries completely free of charge.

July 21, 2018 Language, Macs, Technology

Scripting in Swift: Key characters, or what character can’t be key

A hard to spot runtime error results if you try to embed the key < in a dictionary. But when converting plain text for embedding in XML, that's one character you need to substitute.

January 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Decoding a property list

You want to read in a property list to structured data in Swift. The solution – in Swift 4 – is in a Coder, as explained here.

December 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Compositor’s attempt on the Holy Grail of document processing

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Described as a WYSIWYG LaTeX for Mac, this app attempts to provide integrated editing of both marked-up text and rendered pages.

July 7, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last week on my Mac: hypertext for almost all, and fault-tolerant XML

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Hypertext returns without any hyperbole, and XML could be much more able to cope with the reality of life.

August 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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