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Words and Letters
In This Chapter
Processing words with TextEdit
Finding out all about Mavericks’ fonts
Managing fonts with Font Book
As I discuss in previous chapters, your Mac is well equipped for creating and managing media — music, movies, and photos. But your Mac is also ready to handle more-common tasks, such as typing a letter or writing an essay.
I think it’s fair to say that Mavericks’ TextEdit application is all that many users will ever need for writing letters or essays.
If you need more control over your pages, try Pages from Apple (available in the Mac App Store for $19.99).
Furthermore, Mavericks comes with a wide variety of fonts (sometimes called typefaces), plus a handy little app called Font Book for managing those fonts. Fonts allow you to change the way text looks on the screen and the printed page.
In this chapter, you look at the OS X Mavericks text-composition and editing program, called TextEdit, and then explore fonts and how to manage them.
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