Sublime Text 2 may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.

Welcome to the Text Mechanic! A collection of free, online, browser-based, text editing/manipulation tools.

Trouble in Mind is a new text written by a Johns Hopkins psychiatric clinician, educator, and researcher, aimed to answer fundamental questions about mental illness.

This website serves as an introduction to the book and to the author.

Alessandro Cipriani - Maurizio Giri
Theory and Practice with Max/MSP - Vol. I

This revised edition, first published in 2007, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the second edition of this book published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY, in 1988 (ISBN 0-07-047794-9), and also published earlier by Macmillan, Inc., New York, NY, 1988 (ISBN 0-02-389380-X). All copyrights to this work reverted to Sophocles J. Orfanidis in 1996.


The book is freely available online as a single PDF file.

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites.

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed as a general purpose text editor, gedit emphasizes simplicity and ease of use. It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages.

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

The Open Book Project is aimed at the educational community and seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics. The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web are making collaboration among educators on a global scale possible for the first time. We want to harness this exciting technology to promote learning and sharing.

reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It is useful for in-line program documentation (such as Python docstrings), for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. reStructuredText is designed for extensibility for specific application domains.

The primary goal of reStructuredText is to define and implement a markup syntax for use in Python docstrings and other documentation domains, that is readable and simple, yet powerful enough for non-trivial use.

Text mining software from Collective Intellect, a company based in Boulder, Colorado, scrutinizes posts on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, and message boards to help businesses learn what's being said about their products. The company's software uses a suite of algorithms to scan text and work out what a person is referring to and with what emotional tone

Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

TeXShop is a TeX previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa. Since pdf is a native file format on OS X, TeXShop uses "pdftex" and "pdflatex" rather than "tex" and "latex" to typeset in its default configuration; these programs in the standard TeX Live distribution of TeX produce pdf output instead of dvi output.

For a better text editing experience. QuickCursor brings your favorite text editor* to any app with a global keyboard shortcut. Unlike manually copying and pasting between apps, QuickCursor automates the entire process to save you time.

Cecilia serves the composer with little programming experience and the programmer with little composing experience. There is very little, sound wise, that cannot be done with Cecilia. Cecilia operates on top of Csound, the audio/dsp engine from Barry Vercoe at MIT.

If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife.

This site is the official home of Eddie, the ultimate programmers editor for Mac OS X and Linux Gnome.

 What's new

released april 2011

Text System Overview provides a survey of the Cocoa text system. The articles introduce important features and describe aspects of the text system as a whole.

What is EPUB, .epub, OPS/OCF & OEB?

".epub" is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. ".epub" is composed of three open standards, the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF) and Open Container Format (OCF), produced by the IDPF. "EPUB" allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications.