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Text manipulation consists of creating, managing, and storing text strings. Mac OS X programming interfaces provide capabilities that range from basic text input and display to sophisticated text encoding conversions.

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Attributed Strings Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to use attributed strings, which manage attributes of character strings or individual characters.
2007-06-04
Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager (HTML) (PDF)
Explains character encodings, Unicode conversion, and custom converter plug-ins. Lists encoding variants.
2005-07-07
Rulers and Paragraph Styles (HTML) (PDF)
Explains paragraph styles and how to work with the rulers that enable users to manipulate them.
2007-09-04
Spell Checking (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to use the spell-checking facilities in the Cocoa text system.
2004-02-09
String Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to create, search, concatenate, and draw strings in Cocoa.
2008-10-15
Strings Programming Guide for Core Foundation (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to create, manipulate, and search strings in Core Foundation, and how strings interact with encodings and character sets.
2008-03-11
Text Attachment Programming Topics for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Expalins how to add graphics and other attachments to text.
2006-12-05
Text Attributes (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to work with attributes, the distinguishing characteristics of rich text.
2004-02-16
Text Editing Programming Guide for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to control the behavior of the Cocoa text system as it performs text editing.
2008-02-08
Text Fields (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to use Cocoa text fields.
2004-02-09
Text Input and Output (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to read and write text files in Cocoa.
2004-02-10
Text System Storage Layer Overview (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how the Cocoa text system stores the information it needs to lay out text.
2005-08-11
Text Views (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to use Cocoa text views.
2004-02-09
Using Ink Services in Your Application (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how Ink Services works and how to customize handwriting recognition.
2003-07-24