Much ado has been made of euphemism inflation. While it’s easy to make fun of it, it’s worth examining its logic.

His “weave” conveys meaning, I’ll give him that. But it says something he does not intend.

I’m pleased (if not delighted) to release three new versions of my free utilities that work with text, one way or another. These fix problems that prevent their previous versions from having access to the new AI Writing Tools in macOS Sequoia. As they’re the first new builds of these apps for a year, they should also improve performance and user experience across all more recent versions of macOS.

DelightEd is a rich text editor designed to work well with appearance modes, specifically Dark Mode. While it doesn’t support the embedding of images or graphics, thus is text-only, it was designed to overcome problems when displaying rich text within apps, as it generates text that displays correctly regardless of mode. It’s also unusual for its extensive support of interlinear text.

Select a block of text in this new version, and when your Mac is running a beta-release of Sequoia 15.1, the contextual menu offers the full suite of Writing Tools. However, as it doesn’t use TextKit 2, it doesn’t display the fancy effects while those tools are applied.

DelightEd version 2.3 is now available from here: delighted23
from Downloads above, from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism. This version should be compatible with all versions of macOS from High Sierra to Sequoia, although support for Writing Tools is only available in Sequoia 15.1.

Podofyllin is a lightweight PDF viewer that can’t alter the original PDF, although it can save and export it in different forms. It also gives access to the full source for each PDF, allowing you to discover hidden contents and see the file’s complete metadata. It’s perhaps the only PDF viewer that lets you open multiple independent views of the same PDF for simultaneous reference.

The view on the right of its main window shows all text extracted from the PDF; select a section of that, and you can now use the contextual menu to apply Writing Tools to that text. macOS may also allow you to select text in the central PDF view and apply Writing Tools to that, although that currently doesn’t work.

Podofyllin version 1.3 is now available from here: podofyllin13
from Downloads above, from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism. This version should be compatible with all versions of macOS from High Sierra to Sequoia, although support for Writing Tools is only available in Sequoia 15.1.

Nalaprop takes advantage of the linguistic capabilities of more recent versions of macOS to parse text, mark up its different parts of speech, and produce frequency counts of words and their stems (lemmas). This works across all those languages supported by these linguistic features, and with multilingual text.

Support for Writing Tools extends to two of its three panels: select the text you want to proofread, summarise, or rewrite, and use the contextual menu to invoke that AI feature.

Nalaprop version 1.3 is now available from here: nalaprop13
from Downloads above, from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism. This version should be compatible with all versions of macOS from Mojave to Sequoia, although support for Writing Tools is only available in Sequoia 15.1.

Although I have been testing these, just in case there are any nasty bugs in them, I’ll leave the previous versions available from their product pages, ready if you need to revert to them.

Enjoy!