Category: Geeks r Us
Hi.
I just wanted to let you know about a free text editor i discovered. It is called jarte and you can get it from www.jarte.com
It is written based on the wordpad engin that comes with windows but it has got many more features than wordpad such as spell check, export to html or pdf and much more.
Something that i really liked about this program is that it looks for a screen reader on your computer and if it finds one it starts with a screen reader mode which makes the program accessible with menus etc. I know for sure that it will find jaws and nvda as a screen reader but it didn't find supernova so i had to change the settings.ini file to make it always start as screen reader mode. Butt the help file for it gives very clear instructions of how to do this so it wasn't difficult. But i would prefer if there was a shortcut key to enable screen reader mode.
I liked what i saw so far and the spell checker is very accessible and much easier than microsoft word and it comes with a few languages such as french, spanish, german and a few variations of English.
I think it is a very good piece of software and it is free so i would rekoment it to anyone to try.
I've installed Jarte and begun playing with it; how nice to have a portable, souped-up wordpad; thanks for sharing this!
No problem. I am glad you liked it.
I forgot that it can be portable as well. Somebody can download the zip version from the website or they can install a portable version by going to tools, options if i remember right.
I'll check this out. Thanks for the heads up Nikos.
So far, my favorite text editor is textpad. I've tried Boxer, which is good, but pretty heavy on the resources. Plus, it's not exactly free.
Textpad is pretty much free, or you can purchase a pro version that gives you some kind of tech support.
Jamal Masui (lord, I'm sure I botched the spelling of his name) has a couple of text editors that are made for speech users. One is TextPal, and the other is EdSharp. To run EdSharp, you have to install Microsoft Framework 2.0, which is a slight chore but no real hassle.
I don't have the URLs at hand to find these text editors, but google should give you what you need, if you are interested.
I'll go check this one out, Nikos. I am still dreaming of the perfect text editor. <lol>
Bob
I think you can find Ed Sharp and Text Pal on Jamal's web site. Those editors look like they have some interesting features, especially suited for programming. Regarding the perfect text editor, Bobby, have you considered running either emacs or vim under windoes? LOL.
-Dave
will check it out
<lol> Hadn't thought of emacs in years. What's vim?
Bob
bleh. if it's anything like VI. ick. get it away!
lol seriously I hated vi in my linux class. it could've been made a lot better and more intuitive.
It's the new and improved VI. I sgtill think of Emacs on occasion. lol.