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ASCII edit Publisher's Description:
ASCII/edit is an editor for tables, diagrams, or simple graphics made of ASCII characters in a fixed-width font. It lets you arrange text on a page, as with a layout software; align and indent paragraphs, like in a word processor; and add lines or rectangles, as in a drawing application. The output, however, is pure ASCII text, which you can include in e-mails, newsgroups, or technical documentation. ASCII/edit is also extremely useful for software developers, who can use it to create explaining sketches to include in source code files.
What's new in this version:
* objects can now be grouped
* arbitrary objects can now overlap
* added a new command to convert the selected objects to one editable text object
* added diagonal lines
* lines can now consist of arbitrary characters
* vertical lines can also have arrows
* intersection characters can be turned on or off now, individually for each line and frame
* objects can be flipped horizontally and vertically
* objects can aligned horizontally and vertically
* supports drag and drop between document windows
* text can now be pasted without creating a text box first
* the Text tool has been renamed to Text Select tool, to make clear that its purpose is not editing text
* when creating rectangular selections, a help tag now displays the size of the selection rectangle
* text can now be saved with Windows-style line breaks
* new option to wrap text in text boxes by characters (rather than by words)
* the page size now appears at the lower-left of the window
* a new option allows to automatically enlarge the page when text grows beyond the bottom
* invisible characters in text boxes (spaces, tabs, line breaks) can now be made visible
* new command to remove “gremlins”
* added commands to reverse the characters in each line, and to reverse the selected lines
* new option to auto-expand tabs to spaces
* new overtype mode to overwrite existing characters as you type
* text can now be pasted as plain text, ignoring any previous formatting
* added new commands (and shortcuts) to quickly select the current line and paragraph
* while moving the markers in the text ruler, guidelines now appear in the text
* supports Mac OS X’s spell checking system
* supports Mac OS X’s Complete command (will only work in Panther)
* Replace All operations can now be undone
* better display of return and tab characters in the Find panel, including new buttons to comfortably insert such characters
* searches can be limited to whole words
* now remembers the settings in the Find panel
* new command (and shortcut) to set the replace string from the selection
* added support for additional character encodings (when saving ASCII/Unicode files), and a palette to control which encodings appear in the menu
* now saves Unicode line or paragraph separators
* remembers settings in the Save As Text panel
* keyboard shortcuts for all menu items can now be customized
* redesigned the Info palette
* the Info palette now allows changing the dimensions of several objects relative to their current size
* the Info palette can now evaluate simple arithmetic expressions
* now remembers the size and position of document windows
* new command to set the default size and position for document windows
* the Step & Repeat command now asks before it enlarges the page
* changed the shortcuts for “Preferences…” from Command-; (semicolon) to Command-, (comma), and for “Align Center” from Command-
* (dash) to Command-|, according to the new Human Interface Guidelines
* fixed a bug due to which copy and paste for objects didn’t work
* fixed a bug which sometimes caused wrong characters to appear in custom-style frame boxes (on the screen display only)
* fixed a bug which made ASCII/edit behave strangely when modifying a Text tool selection with the shift and arrow keys
* fixed a bug which caused the buttons in some alert sheets only to react on the second click
* fixed problems with Mac OS X’s Special Characters palette
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