WASTE helps Macintosh programmers include advanced text display and editing in their applications.
WASTE is a memory-based editor, which places no arbitrary limit on the amount of text being edited, up to available system memory.
It supports the Macintosh WorldScript system, allowing it to handle double-byte character sets and bi-directional text.
WASTE version 2.0 gained support for paragraph-level formatting, additional character styles, multiple undo and redo operations, Unicode translation, and Mac OS X Carbon support, as well as providing new application programming interfaces (APIs) for printing and string matching.
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