Reader Jack Howard, like an increasing number of us, finds his eyesight less keen. I use TextEdit a good bit for writing long blocks of copy for emails and online comments in forums, where I want to ...

A lot of people overlook TextEdit’s abilities as a word processor—in rich text mode, it’s actually not a bad tool for most word processing tasks. There is, however, one apparent omission: no way to ...

Mac OS X's bare bones text editor gets some attention in the coming release of Lion, adding support for vertical layouts for East Asian languages, as well as a graphical menu bar with font selection ...