Nevertheless, the functions can of course be used in any language. To do this, you would have to know the English names for the typographical special characters or elements that are processed here. I have the tool in my SetApp subscription included, which is of course very practical as it doesn't cost me any additional money.Īt this point maybe a reference to another helpful text tool called " Get PlainText", which I have activated almost all the time in order to have formatted text in the clipboard converted directly into plain text.Ī small drawback of TextSoap is perhaps the fact that the tool is not available in German and that with many functions, due to the English function names, you do not understand exactly what they do.
48 EUR per license (for 2 Macs) the tool is not super cheap, but if you have to do with texts professionally, you will quickly have the price back through saved time inside. In such cases, TextSoap definitely makes it much easier and faster to reach your goal. Not only are these time-consuming jobs, they are also incredibly boring. Here the typographical events are often different from your own ideas and you have to correct certain little things over and over again. In my opinion, TextSoap always scores when you have to deal with texts from other people a lot. Every now and then I correct product names that I used to write like that, but there is usually not much to clean up. When I write blog posts myself, I still get by quite well and stick to my own ideas about typography. I would say that TextSoap is a tool for everyone who has to work with foreign texts every now and then (or more often). Conclusion: A must if there is a lot of "foreign text" A function that is worth gold for shop owners. With the batch function, many text files can be edited at once. Insert line breaks according to the specified number of characters (50, 60 or 70 characters).Convert text to "internet-friendly text".set up a notification when a certain number of characters or words is reached.convert a string into hexadecimal information.
There are also functions that convert between DOS, Unix and Mac line breaks back and forth. There is also a function for this in TextSoap that cleans up such things. For example, if you have a mail that contains quotations from an earlier mail, these are often shown with a preceding square bracket ">". In addition to such corrections of words or punctuation, there are also many functions that affect the form of the text. An "Iphone" then automatically becomes an "iPhone" - even if the Mac itself usually offers this as a correction when typing. There are even features that correct the spelling of product names from big tech companies.
The Mac software TextSoap, on the other hand, is a small marvel for this area of application, because it offers so many ready-made cleaning functions that hardly anything is left to be desired. If you move the mouse pointer over a function, a small hint appears that explains what the function does exactly.
Every now and then I need single quotes for text (the variant that only appears at the top), but in the client's Word document there are typographic quotes (where the first is at the bottom).Often times a sequence of three dots is typed as an ellipsis, which should actually be entered as a special character (on the Mac with ALT + DOT) called "ellipsis".In many cases, a hyphen is used instead of a dash in a text - although a dash would belong.Every now and then I get texts from customers or authors who don't have a space after the comma or sometimes a space before the comma.Almost everyone has double or triple spaces in their texts.Some authors forget to add a space after the colon after a colon in a list.Would you like a few simple application examples? Here you are: And the cleaning itself can be designed freely or you can put together your desired "cleaning procedure" from existing routines. To put it simply, TextSoap is a text editor that offers a rich arsenal of functions that can be used to clean up texts. Today I am at SetApp stumbled across an exciting tool that could have helped me many times if only I had known: TextSoap from unmarked software. 5 Conclusion: A must if there is a lot of "foreign text".3 Very powerful: the ability to build cleansing functions yourself.2 Over 100 ready-made functions available.1 My previous solution: Search and replace via PHP script or in Pages.