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Texts is “rich editor for plain text”—you can write documents in visual interface and they will be saved in plain text format with Markdown markup. This document shows some styles available in Texts. Please feel free to edit it—a fresh copy is always available via Help menu.
Inline Formatting
To apply emphasis or strong emphasis press ⌘I or ⌘B and type. Press again to turn it off.
Footnotes
Notes can be placed anywhere1 in the source file (press ⌘R to insert one). When document is published to paper-oriented format (PDF or Word) footnotes are displayed at the bottom of the corresponding page. E-book readers usually display notes in popups.
1Yes, right here.
Hyperlinks
Press ⌘K to insert a hyperlink. It can be either literal URL (e.g. http://www.google.com/) or have some texthttp://www.texts.io/. Click URL with ⌘ key pressed to open it in web browser.
Math
Formulas can be placed inline like E=mc^2 or in a separate paragraph, like the following one. Standard LaTeX syntax is supported.
\frac{n!}{k!(n-k)!} = \binom{n}{k}
Code
Inline code gets monospaced font.
Verbatim blocks use monospaced font as well and preserve line
breaks
Press “Enter” key inside code block to insert a line break or “Shift+Enter” to end code block.
Lists
Bulleted
First bulleted item.
Second bulleted item.
Lists can be styled via menu, keyboard shortcut, or using autoformatting: type minus and space for bulleted item or “1”, point and space for numbered item. Press “Tab” to indent paragraph and create subitem, “Shift+Tab” to unindent.
Numbered
First numbered item.
Second numbered item.
Definitions
Term
Definition can be created by typing tilde and space.
Definition relates to preceding normal paragraph.
Quotations
Just indented.
Tables
Press ^⌘L to create a table, ⌥⌘+arrow keys to add more columns or rows, ^⌘+arrow keys to move column or row. Here is a sample table.
Features
Editable in Texts
Export to PDF
Export to HTML
Basic Styles
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Images
Image caption looks the same way as definition list. It provides “definition” of an image.
Citations
It’s worth looking at feature comparison of popular reference managers (fenner_2010b).
References
Reference manager overview