Bean 1.2
Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. 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.
If you’re pining away for Write Now-esque simplicity or just want a low-pressure writing environment, try Bean.
Features:
* 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.)
* please keep in mind that Bean is betaware
What’s new:
Version 1.2:
* images now indicate when they are selected with a selection-colored box (user suggestion)
* added a small ‘EXIT’ button in the status bar as a hard-to-miss way to exit full screen mode
* Find > Define Word now accepts multiple word selections, like ‘local time,’ or ‘turn on the charm’
* added Style > Select by > Font Style/Ruler
* added Style > Select by > Font Family/Ruler (like above, but selects italics, bold, etc. variations)
* Changed the factory default rich text font to Times New Roman instead of Times. Text lays out up to three times faster using Times New Roman, despite the fact that the two fonts are nearly identical!
* new keyboard shortcut for Format > Justify: Cmd-\ (the old one stopped working after the move to the 10.5 SDK)
* Style > Select by… menu now contains all select-by-style actions
* restored show/hide Font Panel action to Cmd-T (toggle function disappeared after the move to the 10.5 SDK)
* fixed a problem where Inspector wouldn’t display correct initial settings for any document opened with the cursor at the start of the document
* file links containing spaces now open immediately
* fixed minor ruler widgets drawing problem
