As you know, typing and creating documents of the appropriate type today can be called the most common operations. And this does not apply exclusively to those formats that most users are used to. In fact, even XML format files can be attributed to such documents , which many novice users have no idea about. But let's look at what constitutes any program for creating text documents as such. We will especially dwell on the issues of using some additional features of applications of any such type.
Programs for creating and editing text documents: what are they?
To begin with, not to mention the fact that all applications of this kind can be divided into paid, free and shareware, let us dwell on their main difference - the principles of text editing and saved formats.
If you approach the classification very conditionally, programs for creating text documents can be divided into three main categories:
- pure text editors (Notepad and its analogues);
- test processors (Word and similar applications);
- Mixed editing tools (such as PDFs).
Standard Notepad and its analogues
First, consider, as it seems to everyone, the primitive Notepad. But the program for creating text documents of this category only at first glance seems so simple. Indeed, typing in it is carried out according to the same principle as in the now not used DOS systems, where a call to the text editing console was invoked by the edit command or the F4 virtual button in the same Norton Commander.
There is no automatic line break here, the text is entered in only one line, there are no formatting tools, and you cannot add additional elements like graphics. However, any programmer will tell you that there is simply no way to find tools better than Notepad or an extended analogue like Notepad ++ for entering code in some programming language.
The whole point is that free ones, that paid programs create text documents of this type, produce with one main feature - they support the syntax of most programming languages known today. What does this mean? The only thing is that if the command is entered incorrectly, the line is underlined, and compilation without correction becomes simply impossible.
Another plus is extension assignment management. For example, it is not necessary to create a TXT file. Having entered the necessary commands, you can simply save the object as an executable console file BAT or even a REG registry file. Simply enter the contents correctly and select the formats of all files from the list and manually register the extension. After saving, the file can be opened directly with a double click for execution or use editing through the RMB menu.
MS Word Test Processor
This word processor, included in the standard set of office suite, is paid (but not all of its versions, not to mention mobile applets). Its capabilities are also very unusual.
Text editing is already carried out using a certain formatting style, including changing the text size, font type, indenting and spacing between lines, etc.
In addition, you can insert audio and video, pictures, links to other objects into any document, not counting the use of data from other office applications (for example, you can easily insert an Excel or Access table into Word).
It goes without saying that you can also save the created files in different formats, however, you can’t assign the output format manually, as is done in applications like Notepad. You will have to proceed only from what is supported.
PDF Tools
Oddly enough, this may sound, but any program for creating text documents can be interpreted, as well as a PDF-file editor, which today is almost the most universal.
However, such applications cannot be called fully text editors, since they combine both the means of working with texts and the tools for processing graphic images. On the other hand, why not? After all, this only adds poles to such packages.
Creating text documents: paid and free programs. What can be done in them?
But all these were just common features. As already understood, text Notepads can be used to create files of any type (not necessarily text, since the extension when saving a file can even be set to one that does not exist in the system).
Word and its analogues can also be used as simple HTML editors, or, more simply, primitive tools for quickly creating web pages and then publishing them on an Internet hosting service. Tables in such programs are more visual rather than computational in nature, although you can set the definition of the amount if you know the necessary tools for this. Another plus is the ability to enter mathematical formulas, so to speak, in graphical form, as in algebra and geometry lessons children do this in notebooks.
What to use?
Here is a brief summary of everything regarding the consideration of what a program for creating text documents can be. It remains to add that questions of preferences for the used applets can be considered exclusively in the context of what the user wants to receive from the entered text and the saved file. You can, of course, use standard Microsoft tools, but developments like Lotus Pro or OpenOffice in some moments look a cut above. Another thing is that of the Windows users and the standard "Office" in practice, almost no one has tried them. But in vain ...