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Posted by Bernhard
Aug 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM

Hugh wrote:

>Unfortunately, I don’t know of anything equivalent for the Mac platform,
>and that’s a little odd given the alleged writing bias of the Mac-user community.
>(Textanz claims to work on a Mac, but I haven’t been able to get it to do so.)

I just installed a trial of Textanz on my Mac and it starts, at least (more testing to be done).

The hurdle to overcome is downloading the “zip” version of Textanz and the editing the “gui.sh”
and then saving it with line endings set to “LF” and not “CRLF” (that is the pitfall!).

Now “./gui.sh” does start the GUI.

Hope it helps.

Posted by Bernhard
Aug 1, 2012 at 10:40 AM

>The hurdle to overcome is downloading the “zip” version of
>Textanz and the editing the “gui.sh”
> and then saving it with line endings set to “LF”
>and not “CRLF” (that is the pitfall!).
> >Now “./gui.sh” does start the GUI.

Additionally you should edit the line “TEXTANZ_HOME=/Applications/Textanz” to
” export TEXTANZ_HOME=/Applications/Textanz”.

There are still some errors here:

java[4743]

: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
java[4743]

: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0
java[4743]

: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
java[4743]

: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0

but Textanz seems to work.

Posted by Bernhard
Aug 1, 2012 at 10:43 AM

Hugh wrote:
> >I just tested SmartEdit,
>briefly, with 60 pages of current work. So far, so easy and good (the software, that is,
>not the 60 pages…). I like the “ignored phrases” and “cliches” features too. I also
>like the naming and shaming of adverbs. Five minutes ago I was proud of what I thought
>was my record of shunning adverbs. No longer.
> >H

What I like to see in a pro version would be multiple “sets” of lists that could be activated depending on the language or the subject area I work in.

Posted by Hugh
Aug 1, 2012 at 01:00 PM

Bernhard wrote:
> >
> >>The hurdle to overcome is downloading the “zip” version of
>>Textanz and the
>editing the “gui.sh”
>> and then saving it with line endings set to “LF”
>>and not
>“CRLF” (that is the pitfall!).
>>
>>Now “./gui.sh” does start the
>GUI.
> >
>Additionally you should edit the line
>“TEXTANZ_HOME=/Applications/Textanz” to
>” export
>TEXTANZ_HOME=/Applications/Textanz”.
> >There are still some errors
>here:
> >java[4743]

: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
>java[4743]
>

: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0
>java[4743]

:
>CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
>java[4743]

: CGContextSetBaseCTM:
>invalid context 0x0
> >but Textanz seems to work.
>

Thanks Bernhard!

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 17, 2012 at 05:36 PM

Franz Grieser wrote:
>The author of PageFour also write an interesting free tool (still free -
>there will soon be a commercial Pro edition): SmartEdit scans your text,
>creates a list of used words, counts the frequency of words and shows
>duplicate words, (user-defineable) phrases, clichés, etc.
> >http://www.smart-edit.com/

There is a new version of the beta available: Updated November 2nd, 2012

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