SimpleText
Apple Computer | |
| Stable release | 1.4
|
|---|---|
| Operating system | System 7 – Mac OS 9 |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | Proprietary |
SimpleText is the
Apple Computer.[2]
It can be considered similar to Windows'
PlainTalk speech system, read out text in English. Users who wanted to add sounds longer than 24 seconds, however, needed to use a separate program to create the sound and then paste the desired sound into the document using ResEdit.[2]
SimpleText superseded
Readme
documents.
The key improvement of SimpleText over TeachText was the addition of text styling. The
styled text format, which meant that SimpleText could support multiple fonts and font sizes. Prior Macintosh OS versions lacked this feature, so TeachText supported only a single font per document. Adding text styling features made SimpleText WorldScript-savvy, meaning that it can use Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters.[3] Like TeachText, SimpleText was also limited to only 32 kB of text in a document,[2] although images could increase the total file size beyond this limit. SimpleText style information was stored in the file's resource fork
in such a way that if the resource fork was stripped (such as by uploading to a non-Macintosh server), the text information would be retained.
In
spell checking. TextEdit's styled text format is RTF
, which is able to survive a single-forked file system intact.
Apple has released the source code for a
Carbon version of SimpleText in the Mac OS X Panther (10.3) Developer Tools. If the 10.3 Developer Tools are installed, it can be found at /Developer/Examples/Carbon/SimpleText. Alternatively, the sample code can be found in Apple's Documentation Archive: SimpleText Sample
.
See also
References
- ^ Engst, Tonya (1998). "Writing a ReadMe File? Read This". MacTech. 14 (10). Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ^ a b c d Stearns, Bryan; Mark Cookson. "Technical Note TN1005: The Compleat (sic.) Guide to SimpleText". Apple Technical Notes. Archived from the original on 11 October 2004. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ^ "Important Information About System 7.5 and the Chinese Language Kit" (PDF). Apple Inc. 1994. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
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