Bare Bones Software Ships BBEdit 8.0.BEDFORD, Mass. -- Major Upgrade to Professional HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and Text Editor With Over 100 New Features and Enhancements Designed to Increase Productivity Bare Bones Software Bare Bones Software is a Bedford, Massachusetts, USA software company developing software tools for the Apple Macintosh platform. The company is best known for its BBEdit text editor, marketed under the registered trademark "It doesn't suck. , Inc., developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit(R) 8.0, a major upgrade to its award-winning HTML and text editor. BBEdit 8.0 introduces over one hundred new features and improvements, including a new Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar A set of buttons or graphic images typically in a row or column used as a central point that link you to major topic sections on a Web site. If the navigation bar is a single graphic image with multiple selections, it is known as an imagemap. See imagemap. interface, new Text Factories for automating text processing, numerous enhancements to the product's signature HTML markup tools, improved Unicode support, integrated support for Perforce per·force adv. By necessity; by force of circumstance. [Middle English par force, from Old French : par, by (from Latin per; see per) + force, force , and much more. BBEdit 8.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5. "BBEdit has always provided deep HTML and text editing The ability to change text by adding, deleting and rearranging letters, words, sentences and paragraphs. Text editing is the main operation users perform in word processors, which typically also handle graphics and other multimedia files. See text editor and word processing. capabilities with a clean interface," said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bare Bones Software, Inc. "For version 8.0, we have distilled our years of Mac development experience and customer feedback into a set of exciting new features to enhance our customers' productivity." BBEdit 8.0 introduces new interface options to allow multiple documents to be opened into a single window, and to provide easy, efficient navigation between multiple open documents. The Documents Drawer presents a list of open documents in a given editing window, and switches to another document with a single keystroke key·stroke n. A stroke of a key, as on a word processor. key  stroke or mouse gesture In computing, a mouse gesture is a way of combining computer mouse movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Mouse gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program. . The Navigation Bar works alone, or in concert with the Documents Drawer, to provide an alternate interface for switching between documents in a window while conserving screen real estate. Building on BBEdit's strong text processing and transformation abilities, the new Text Factory feature now, for the first time, provides a mechanism to apply BBEdit's powerful arsenal of tools across multiple files and folders, quickly and easily. Text Factories allow the BBEdit customer to create a list of individual text-processing operations, and apply them in order and with corresponding options, over a designated document, or set of documents and folders. No scripting or programming is necessary to create a Text Factory. A Text Factory may run in the background, may include AppleScripts or Unix scripts, and may be saved for future use. Version 8.0 incorporates significant advances to BBEdit's signature HTML markup tools, including enhanced CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. markup tools and a more flexible HTML syntax checker Noun 1. syntax checker - a program to check natural language syntax computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" with support for "exclusion zones" and partial-document checking. New Preview Server support enables previewing of pages which require server-side processing before rendering. The newly integrated HTML Tidy HTML Tidy is a computer program and a library whose purpose is to fix invalid HTML and give the source code a reasonable layout (aka indent style). It was developed by Dave Raggett of W3C, then passed on to become a Sourceforge project. tool formats and cleans up HTML code, and can be used to convert between HTML and XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. . BBEdit 8.0 features enhanced support for editing and processing Unicode text files, and can now work with documents written in multiple Unicode-represented languages. BBEdit's already legendary multi-file search and replace capabilities have been enhanced in version 8.0 to support the searching of multiple discrete files and folders as selected by the customer. Multiple multi-file search and replace operations now run as background tasks, leaving the application usable for other purposes. Seamless integration with the Perforce Fast Software Configuration Management System (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) now allows BBEdit 8.0 customers to perform Perforce functions within BBEdit. The leading commercial version control system, Perforce is used in large and small enterprises for multi-file updates, concurrent development, and managing multiple software releases. Additional information about Perforce Software Inc. and its products can be found at http://www.perforce.com/ . "Perforce has always been in the forefront of providing SCM support for the Macintosh," said Nigel Chanter chanter: see bagpipe. , chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Perforce Software. "Now with this seamless integration with BBEdit, developers have access to a winning combination of tools." Additional integration with the Unix command-line environment includes enhancements to the "bbedit" command-line tool, a new "bbdiff" tool for invoking BBEdit's powerful "Find Differences," support for Perl debugging using the Affrus environment from Late Night Software (http://www.latenightsw.com/), and integration with Exuberant Ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) for source-code indexing and navigation. For more information on BBEdit, or to download a fully functional demo version, visit the company's web site: http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml Pricing and Availability Through October 31, 2004, BBEdit 8.0 is available at an introductory price of US$179, with a suggested retail price of US$199 effective November 1, 2004. Anyone who purchased BBEdit on or after June 1, 2004 is eligible to receive a free upgrade, and, if purchased directly from Bare Bones Software, will be notified automatically via email. BBEdit 8.0 may be purchased directly from Bare Bones Software and many major Macintosh software resellers. For a partial listing of domestic and international resellers, visit: http://www.barebones.com/store/resellers.shtml All registered owners of BBEdit version 2.5 and later are eligible to upgrade to BBEdit 8.0 by ordering directly from Bare Bones Software. Registered owners of BBEdit 7.0 and 7.1 who are not eligible for the free upgrade can upgrade for US$49; registered owners of BBEdit 6.5 and older can upgrade for US$59. A discounted cross-upgrade price of US$129 is available to owners of BBEdit Lite, Adobe GoLive, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Educational discounts and site license pricing are also available. For details please visit the company's web site at http://www.barebones.com/store/index.shtml, send email to sales@barebones.com, or call (781) 687-0700. About Bare Bones Software, Inc. Bare Bones Software, Inc., incorporated in 1994, is a privately-held corporation based in Bedford, MA. BBEdit, the company's flagship product, has received numerous accolades from press and users, including a 2001 Macworld Editor's Choice Award, a "Great" rating from MacAddict Magazine, and a rating of 4-and-a-half mice from Macworld Magazine. The company's expanding product family also includes TextWrangler, a high-performance plain text editor, Mailsmith, and Super Get Info Super Get Info is an application by Bare Bones Software that they have billed as a replacement for the Get Info command in Mac OS X. Features
TextWrangler, Super Get Info and the Bare Bones Software logo are trademarks of, and BBEdit, Mailsmith and "It doesn't suck" are registered trademarks of Bare Bones Software, Inc. Copyright (c) 2004, All rights reserved. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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