Re. Plain Text Editor
Re. Plain Text Editor
- Subject: Re. Plain Text Editor
- From: Jeffrey Wurtz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:46:29 -0700
| Tex-Edit Plus has been a boon to me for many, many years. It's scriptability, build-in text cleanup features, and its ability to contain graphics objects during the long period when Apple's Simple Text program could not contain graphics made Tex-Edit Plus an obvious choice for plain text yet formatted documents.
I contacted the author, Tom Bender, twice this past year to inquire about a Lion-compatible version, and twice he assured me via e-mail that he would be providing a Lion-compatible version. Here it is a few weeks after the introduction of Lion and there is no Lion-compatible version of Tex-Edit Plus.
I'm bummed because my collection of Tex-Edit Plus documents numbered over 9,000!
My actions:
1) I've converted all my Tex-Edit Plus documents to TextEdit documents. Tom Bender's "ConvertToRTF" droplet did most of the heavy lifting, but his droplet does not transfer graphic objects from Tex-Edit Plus to TextEdit; UGH!!
2) I made a personal pact to never again invest heavily in a single-author software program! The conversion from TE+ to TextEdit was so time-consuming and painful that I never again want to experience such a waste of time. What surprises me is that after using Macs for over 20 years and reading hundreds of software reviews, I've rarely read any reviewer mentioning the extremely high risk of single-author programs becoming unsupported and all the associated files suddenly becoming unusable.
Jeff
"I bend my knees before the Father …"
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