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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

Preference lists, a running sore in OS X

Preference settings have been a problem since the first public beta of OS X. Why have they never been properly sorted out?

August 9, 2016 Macs, Technology

Marking Time

Why is XML still so hard to write, and so poorly supported by accessible tools?

January 16, 2016 Macs, Technology

Personal Preference – preferences from resources to XML

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How property list files store your preference settings, and how to access additional features.

November 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: A dictionary of placenames

How can I set up a dictionary of placenames, which I can then access throughout my applications?

May 21, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

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