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My only experience is working with TextPad 4.7.

It does sound like a warning of incompatiblity with 5.1 ought to be noted. Not sure how that would be effected.

I use the XML Tidy add-on for TextPad, which can be found on the TextPad Add-ons page.

it works pretty well for indenting lines to make things easier to read.

I do, however, always end up fussing with the text a little afterwards.

Roger

Oh, Notepad is not really a solution. Because it doesn't have an option to display invisible or non-printing characters, there's no way to check the zero-width space between words. But otherwise it manages to handle Unicode properly. Like you, I would prefer that my solution could incorporate more o...

This looks like a pretty promising editor. Even uses Textpad syntax files. I won't be using it, however. As with many other Unicode editors, it can't display zero-width spaces, nor work with Unicode Khmer fonts to combine characters automatically. For instance, In Khmer the word for "I" is...

In the last six months, I've been working with beta versions of an open-source but commercially developed ebook reader (dotreader) and a commercial flash-card program (Stackz), as well as with a single-programmer's open-source XML editor that has issued 4 updates with single-feature improvements sin...

I look forward to the version of TextPad that supports Unicode fully. I imagine support under Vista for many of the little-used alphabets will be easier than under XP. Good luck with your development. I have always put Textpad at the top of the "lightweight, ASCII, programmer's text editors&quo...

I've voiced my need for Unicode support in other threads. With some Eastern languages, character merging needs to take place at a lower-level than in the application. With XP, you have to have a relatively recent version of USP10.dll for this to work, and Microsoft doesn't readily supply this file. ...

Just want to note my support for this feature.

Roger

vhdeskchris wrote:It's not .Net - it uses the win32 toolbar and visual studio UI extensions. The whole thing is C/C++ still.

Hm-m. I always thought TextPad was written in Tcl.

Anyone know for sure?

Roger

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I wonder if the general release of Vista on January 30 will trigger the appearance of TextPad 5?

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Hm-m. Guess I'll keep checking.

I agree about bolding. I use an XSLT tool called XSelerator (sadly it has not been updated in years and does not support XSLT 2.0), and the native XML and XSLT syntax coloring there is so readable, I've adopted it and use it here in TextPad. Except that XSelerator makes the text stand out from the m...

I was very delighted to discover this first version of the automatic end-tag creation macro by Marcelo, and then I found situations where it didn't work as intended. These weren't, however, elements with attributes. Instead, the problem I stumbled across was creating a new, second element nested ins...

I use the msxsl engine from Microsoft. I don't know whether it handles XSLT 2.0, but it is a small, fast, lightweight command-line utility for XSLT 1.0 transformations. You can download msxsl.exe from www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2fb55371-c94e-4373-b0e9-db4816552e41&displayl...

Thanks for this guidance. You got me to the desired result. I put the batch file in c:\programs, which I like to use for TextPad tools because it eliminates the issue of having a space in a directory name. Then I found I couldn't call TextPad from the batch file because cmd.exe didn't like the space...

I won't be able to try this out for a while. Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder what will happen if there's an error in the transformation -- will it be delivered to the Command Results window do you think? When I provide the -o filename parameter, saving the transformation into a file, errors do s...