Hi, TextEdit is built into the MacOS X operating system, and can be found in the Applications folder. So, yes, it is free, since it is installed with every Mac. It's used primarily to create or read text documents, which can either be plain text or rich text format.
What may be of more interest to you, although May did not mention it, is that in TextEdit VoiceOver will read all sorts of special characters, including special math symbols, and characters for languages with non-Latin alphabets, even if you don't have voices for those languages (e.g., Greek alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet for Russian and other slavic languages), also emoji characters, etc. And if you select text in a Word document with an embedded table that VoiceOver wouldn't otherwise read out, and send use the "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" service menu option (which you can enable by checking this option under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts for Services), then VoiceOver will read all text (including the tables) in that document from the TextEdit window. As an aside, if anyone is interested in using TextEdit to copy over special characters, like emoji characters for messages, I wrote a description of how to do this in the AppleVis site's Forum just a day ago. Look under the OS X & Mac App Discussion thread titled "using the special character itim pallet". I don't use the character palette for emoji, but you can get special math symbols or Cyrillic or Greek alphabet letters easily copied with this method of opening a TextEdit file and bringing up the Character Palette with Command-Option-T. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jun 9, 2012, at 07:38, Kimsan wrote: > Quick question, text edit is it free? If not how much is it? > > > > Kimsan Song Online Access Technology Trainer > 509.396.1646 > www.BlindAccessTraining.com > Twitter: > http://twitter.com/#!/blindaccess > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 12:37 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Cc: macvoiceo...@freelists.org > Subject: reading with text edit > > Ok, for the life of me I can't remember how to do this. Shows how often I > use this program. > > How do you get text edit to read from top of the document? Also, once you > stop it how to resume it from where you left off. Control, command b is not > it. > > Thanks, May and Prince Noah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
