Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: TextEdit adds vertical layout, graphical toolbar
Mac OS X's bare bones text editor gets some attention in the coming release of Lion, adding support for vertical layouts for East Asian languages, as well as a graphical menu bar with font selection and text highlighting.
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