Bean 2.2.0

A very easy to use word processor for OS X that can read various formats.
Bean is a nice, fast, and uncluttered word processor. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean.

If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.

Try Bean if you're pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment.

Bean natively reads and writes these file formats:
· .rtf format (rich text)
· .rtfd format (rich text with graphics)
· .bean format (identical to .rtfd)
· .txt format (Unicode and legacy)
· .html format (as source code)
· .webarchive format (Apple's web archive format)

Bean transparently imports and exports these formats:
· .doc format (MS Word '97, minus images, margins, and page size)
· .xml format (MS Word 2003 XML, minus images)

Bean can export all of the above formats to this format:
· .html (web page format, minus images)


Main features of Bean:

A live word count.

A Get Info panel for in-depth statistics.

A zoom-slider to easily change the view scale.

An Inspector panel with lots of sliders.

Date-stamped backups.

Autosaving.

A page layout mode.

An alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue).

An option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces).

Selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.

A floating windows option (like Stickies has).

Easy to use menus.

Remembers cursor postion (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats).

All of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.).


What's New in This Release:

Enhancements:

New Find/Replace panel.

Pattern matching (regular expressions) allows easy searches for text that contains tabs, returns, pagebreaks, images, word boundaries, etc. Also search for text using character and digit wildcards, beginning and ending of line symbols, alternate spellings, etc. Complex search patterns can be created by combining these symbols. Tutorials on the use of regular expressions can be found on the internet.

Patterns… drop down menu in Find panel inserts pattern matching symbols

Select All, Replace All (In Document/In Selection Only) functions are better exposed than before

Invisible characters (tab, return, space, non-breaking space) are visible when editing search fields

File > Export > to HTML without Styles will export a file to pure HTML, with no embedded CSS styles (for when you have a separate style sheet)

Services > Bean > HTML Snippit with/without Styles from Selection converts selected text from a word processor or web browser etc. to an HTML snippit. ‘With styles’ includes styles as inline CSS, while ‘without styles’ omits all CSS, leaving pure HTML. Note: new Service menu items appear after logging out and logging back in again.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug that could cause window display problems: minimum document window size is now set programmatically (nib setting kept disappearing)

Fixed many localization issues. Special thanks to Patrick Scheips for his help here.

Revised localization instructions (contrary to the first version, MainMenu.nib should be localized)

Code:

TextFinder.[hm] class (along with the Find Panel interface files) is BSD license, in keeping with more permissive licenses of previous modifications of TextFinder by other programmers and of RegExKitLite and ICU, which Bean’s Find panel uses for regular expressions.

Localizations added:

German

Chinese (Simplified).