1/17/2024 0 Comments Typinator vs typeit4meTypinator requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and costs just $20 you can try it out for free (a 500K download), the only limitation being the number of abbreviations the trial version remembers.First, let me say I LOVE TextExpander. Like PopChar, Typinator can enter characters from throughout the Unicode repertoire and like PopChar, it seems to work just about anywhere – I wasn’t able to find many applications that give Typinator trouble (though I did quickly find one, Panorama). And that, aside from letting an expansion enter current time and date information in a variety of formats, is about all Typinator does it doesn’t permit multiple abbreviation files, or application-specific abbreviation files, like TypeIt4Me.Īs usual with Ergonis’s products, simplicity and reliability are the watchwords. Typinator also does some smart things such as letting you use the capitalisation of the abbreviation to dictate the capitalisation of the expansion (useful for ordinary words that should be capitalised at the start of a sentence but not elsewhere). Typinator also doesn’t require you to type any terminator character to signal that what precedes is an abbreviation instead, it watches to see whether you’ve typed an abbreviation at the start of a word, and if you have, it just expands it (and if that isn’t what you intended, Undo restores the abbreviation in most applications). It also means that entering a Typinator expansion wipes out whatever was on the clipboard I don’t quite see why this is necessary, since it ought to be possible for Typinator to restore the old clipboard contents afterwards, but in any case you can work around this, if you find it problematic, with a multiple clipboard utility such as CopyPaste or ClipBlock. This is done by pasting, which means that Typinator can enter images if an application allows this. It watches the characters you actually enter by typing – I don’t know how – and when you type an abbreviation, it uses GUI scripting to select it and to substitute the expansion. Typinator, on the other hand, is an ordinary application. ![]() TypeIt4Me is an input method you switch to it using your Input menu (the status menu at the right end of the menu bar whose icon is usually some country’s flag), which means that you can’t use it in conjunction with any other input method or keyboard layout. The approaches taken by the two utilities vary radically. Typinator’s primary competition is TypeIt4Me, which I’ve also mentioned in these pages. For example, I could type “tb” to generate “TidBITS”, or “AS” to generate “AppleScript”, and so on for any boilerplate, short or long, that I expect to use. ![]() The idea is that you provide Typinator with a set of abbreviations and expansions when you’re working in any program, if you type an abbreviation, Typinator substitutes the corresponding expansion. ![]() #1683: New M3 chips in updated MacBook Pros and iMac, record Apple Q4 profits on lower revenues, no more 27-inch iMacsĮrgonis software, whose PopChar and Ke圜ue utilities have been mentioned in TidBITS, now throws its hat into the typing assistant ring with Typinator.#1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?.#1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution.#1686: Please support TidBITS, OS security updates, Apple services poll results, biking with an iPhone.#1687: Feature-rich OS updates, recovering from a crashing bug in Contacts, Zoom for Apple TV, how much do you use widgets?.
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