TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-04 Thread E.T.
When reading a plain text document in Windows that was created with TextEdit on the Mac, the line returns are not respected. Isn't there a setting in TextEdit that will correct this? Thanks. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the pa

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-04 Thread Daniel Chavez
I myself don’t believe that text edit has settings for line breaks. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I had to do just a little bit of work to test this out… 1. In the save dialog choose the encodings menu. 2. Choose the last item to customize available encodings. 3. Make sure "Western (DOS Latin 1)” is checked 4. Close the customize encodings dialog. 5. Select "Western (DOS Latin 1)” fro

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-04 Thread E.T.
Jonathan, I will need to look at this again as it did not work for me. Maybe I am not understanding the issue. I set the encoding to Western (DOS Latin 1) in TextEdit preferences, Open and Save. In TextEdit the text I enter displaud properly. If I look at the document with Windows Notep

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Ah, I did not test with notepad, just with MS Word. I suggest you use Notepad++ my office installed a copy of it on my system, and it automatically checks line endings and display text correctly weather you use PC/Mac?Linux. There is also a one line regular expression that was once posted to t

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-04 Thread E.T.
Jonathan, My thinking is that most people will probably use the default applications so if I were to share a document created with TextEdit with a Windows user, it will not display correctly. I did some digging and think the reason Notepad fails here is because it does not support the W

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-05 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Notepad++ is one of the greatest editor out there in my opinion. But you could try jarte if you like too. I think it can do what you want. /A > 5 apr. 2018 kl. 04:45 skrev E.T. : > > Jonathan, > My thinking is that most people will probably use the default applications > so if I were to sh

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
ET, In notepad++ there is a item in the editing menu for changing line endings. It looks like the Latin / Win encoding used “Unix” style line endings. Windows expects the line to end with both a carriage return and a new line character. Which is not terribly surprising since DEC Operating Syst

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-05 Thread E.T.
Its ok. I am putting this aside for now. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 4/5/2018 7:20 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: ET, In notepad++ there is a item in the editing menu for changing line endings. I

RE: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
Sent: Friday, 6 April 2018 2:20 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TextEdit and Windows ET, In notepad++ there is a item in the editing menu for changing line endings. It looks like the Latin / Win encoding used “Unix” style line endings. Windows expects the line to end with both

Re: TextEdit and Windows

2018-04-07 Thread E.T.
s.com Subject: Re: TextEdit and Windows ET, In notepad++ there is a item in the editing menu for changing line endings. It looks like the Latin / Win encoding used “Unix” style line endings. Windows expects the line to end with both a carriage return and a new line character. Which is not ter