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Tex Edit Plus, which I consider to be already one of the best and most comprehensively complete Mac applications in either Classic or OS X, just keeps getting better thanks to continued development by Tom Bender. The latest TE+ beta 4.5.2b1 adds a couple more cool enhancements. 
OS X Services’ ability to copy highlighted text from, say, Safari to a text or database application is a very useful and addictive facility, at least for folks like me who do a lot of research on the Web. TE+ 4.5.1 added support for this function, but beta 4.5.2b1 makes the “Copy to Tex-Edit Plus” Services menu feature even more powerful. Text is now pasted at the insertion point of the frontmost Tex-Edit document, creating a blank document if none exists. This allows you to compile snippets of text from several places on a Web page or several Web pages, including URLs, in a single TE+ document. Very slick! Tom asked me last week if I have been finding this addition to TE+ helpful. Am I! 
Another new wrinkle in TE+ 4.5.2b1 is a simplified “Merge Scripts Folders” applet a little program that makes it easy to maintain your collection of AppleScripts when updating to the latest version of Tex-Edit. If you don’t have a customized collection of AppleScripts in Tex Edit, you’re missing out on getting the advantage of some of the best this great program has to offer. I have a bunch of custom scripts for text manipulation and html markup that I recorded or wrote myself, and others that I downloaded from Doug Adams Tex Edit AppleScripts site. Since tex Edit Plus beta version upgrades appear frequently and new final releases fairly often, one has to keep substituting their custom Scripts folder in the TE+ applicaiton folder for the standard Scripts folder that comes with the application. Tom has now made this chore easier with the “Merge Scripts Folders” applet. Tex-Edit Plus X is $15.00 shareware System requirements: For more information, visit:
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