On Jan 12, 2016, at 14:10, Robert A. Ober <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting, surprising, and dissapointing. If they can read the formatting
> it would seem that a preview would be fairly easy.
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Hello Robert,
BBEdit is simply not designed to render RTF in its Preview window or otherwise.
I'm not aware of any plain-text editor on the Mac or Windows that does this,
but if you know of one I'd be happy to have that information.
> Guess I will have to continue to use TextEdit for some things.
TextEdit is an awkward little editor, but it's small and fast and has its uses.
It appears TextEdit will auto-update an open document when you make changes to
the raw RTF of the same document with BBEdit – so it can be used as a preview
mechanism.
To facilitate that a little bit you can use some AppleScript:
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tell application "BBEdit"
tell front text document
if its on disk = true then
set bbeditDocFile to its file as alias
set keepGoing to true
else
beep
set keepGoing to false
end if
end tell
end tell
if keepGoing then
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
open bbeditDocFile
if bounds of front window ≠ {1015, 23, 1920, 1196} then
set bounds of front window to {1015, 23, 1920, 1196}
end if
end tell
end if
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This will open the front BBEdit document in TextEdit, activate the app, and set
the size & position (bounds) of the front window in TextEdit.
TextEdit has the unfortunate habit of resizing documents when it updates them.
So. The functionality you desire is available if not as convenient as you
wanted it to be.
If you want a more full-featured RTF editor and are willing to spend money then
take a look at Jedit X.
http://www.artman21.com/en/jedit_x/
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Best Regards,
Chris
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