- OS X Services now supports processing rich text with attachments (images).
- New Agent Scripting commands no longer mismapped through the Scripting Addition, caused several issues.
- tsPickCleaner was incorrectly using older dialog.
- Additional Support Options - added option to force reset application (re-installs all various plugin components)
- Remove Style from Text no longer sets a Font and color of the text, resorting to default values from your editor.
- Removed incorrect hexadecimal code syntax reference from Regular Expression Help.
- Changing zoom could cause a problem under some circumstances.
- Find Dialog's Ignore case option now correctly works when searching with regular expressions.
- Fixed issue where some rich text formatting could prevent text from being processed.

• Clipboard workspace border style option. Find it under General Preferences: Dark, Medium, Plain.
• Text, including scaled text, now always wraps to the window (ie. no more horizontal scrollbars).
• Combined Ask a Question, Report a bug, Send Feedback men items into a single "Send Feedback" menu item under Help.
• Fewer 1K limit alerts, esp. on heavy usage of cleaners during trial.
• The custom cleaner editor no longer limits some of actions you could use during trial mode.

- New Entourage 2008 Script
- New Cleaner: Smarten Quotes in HTML Text
- New cleanPasteboard script command
- New preference to increase size of recently used menu list
- pickCleaner command now uses a fully keyboard-driven interface

- BBEdit palette now disables group popup menu when textsoapAgent was not available
- BBEdit palette updates correctly when textsoapAgent is launched or changed
- BBEdit palette height is now limited to 4096 pixels

Make Paragraphs cleaner now keeps most repeating character separator lines

Make Rich/Plain Text menu item toggles clipboard and text documents between rich format and plain format

Added scripting commands to textsoapAgent. These new commands offer easy access to the new agent via AppleScript, making it easy to tightly integrate TextSoap into any app that supports AppleScript.

cleanFile file with "Cleaner" supports rtf, rtfd, text
optional parameters readEncoding, writeEncoding for plain text files lets caller specify text encoding, like "Unicode (UTF8)"
optional parameter extensions ("markdown plist") used to recognize files with those extensions even if they don't match support text type. Files are considered plain text.
Automator Action "Clean Text Files" now supports defining encoding for both read and write and providing list of extensions for files to allow (as plain text) as well as known text formats.

Speak Text toolbar button added. Click to start speaking, Opt-Click to stop speaking.

Custom Cleaner Action - Extract # of characters from beginning of text (think LEFT$)

Custom Cleaner Action - Extract # of characters from end of text (think RIGHT$)

Custom Cleaner Action - Extract # of characters from middle of text (think MID$)

Custom Cleaner Action - Convert Rich Text Hyperlinks to Text using user-specified pattern

Additional built-in groups (:Case Conversion, :Email, :Quoting, :Markdown) added

Plus over two dozen bug fixes and minor improvements.

Version 6.0.1 (646)

• [New] Clipboard Workspace Show Statistics state remains persistent between launches
• [New] Clipboard Workspace Show Invisibles state remains persistent between launches
• [New] Non-breaking space is now displayed as a separate invisible character when Show Invisibles is set.
• [New] Word Count and Show Invisibles buttons now reflect their state.
• [New] Reduced console logging, new option enables previous, more verbose, logging.
• [New] Added show word count option for "New Documents" preferences.
• [New] Build release notes are now displayed with Help menu option.

• [New] Extras Preference Tab

  • Set color of invisibles
  • Make toolbar items grayscale
  • Quit textsoapAgent when App quits.

• [Fixed] Bulk Action add and remove button images were removed in 640.

• [Fixed] Adding an action would cause a scroll to top of action list.
• [Fixed] App would check for news even if option was not selected in preference.
• [Fixed] App would not recognize some textSOAP 3 serial numbers.
• [Fixed] Agent would incorrectly limit the cleaners available to plugins.
• [Fixed] "Check for updates" would include beta releases even when preference option was unselected.
• [Fixed] BBEdit palette close button now works as expected (thanks to Jim Correia at Bare Bones Software)

• [Fixed] BBEdit palette would initially flash in upper left corner before moving to its last size and position.

• [Changed] Updated the word count display for the clipboard workspace.

• [Changed] Updated Coda plug-in to work with Coda 1.6. Plugin now requires 1.6 or later.

Editor
- New user interface.
- Text Zoom: 100%-800%
- Support for Grammar Check
- On-the-fly word count for each window
- Shows word count for entire document or just selection
- Cleaner palette is now attached to each window

New Custom Cleaner Editor
- Single window design
- Cut, Copy and Paste actions between cleaners
- One click Preview greatly simplifies testing your custom cleaner.
- Subroutines allow you to apply actions conditionally
- Collapse individual actions
- Add user notes to individual actions
- Temporarily disable individual actions
- Actions with "Apply cleaner" now has the filter next to the popup.
- Simple import/export (open file to import, can also drag out to Finder to auto-export)
- All find/replace options now support textual Starts With, Ends With, Whole Words
- Regular Express quick reference
- Bulk Find and Replace action
- Title Case with options action
- Hide action descriptions.
- Filter actions based on name or description.

Group Editor
- New user interface.
- Can now easily rename groups.
- Ability to re-order groups.
- Colorizing cleaner items and label items within a group.

Application Integration (Plugins)
- BBEdit palette includes standard and compact mode.
- BBEdit palette supports colorized group items.
- TextSoap can now be placed near top of OS X Services menu.
- Shortcut menu now tries to maintain text formatting in MS Word (when possible).

Built-in Cleaners
- Remove Extra Spaces now handles spaces before returns.
- Capitalize with Title Case
- Mixed-in Markdown applies markdown to specified text lines

• Version 5.7 is now Leopard ready.
• New Deluxe features:
  • Updated BBEdit plug-in with compact mode, allowing all the features of TextSoap with a minimum palette.
  • Add three new and very useful cleaners supporting the Markdown syntax.
  • Added a new plug-in for Coda. Note: This plug-in is still considered preliminary.
• Invisible characters did not display correctly under some systems.
• In some cases, TextSoap would now show up in some Contextual Menus.
• Double-clicking on custom cleaner in Finder did not always allow editing of the cleaner.
• Extract Text from HTML Source cleaner didn't always work as expected.
• In rare instances, setting up the clipboard workspace on launch caused a runtime exception and disable some core features as a result.
• Setting the CleanKeys item (in Prefs) to "None" did not properly clear the menu/hot key.
• When a CleanKey item was set to a custom cleaner, it would not show up correctly in the menu.
• TextSoap would sometimes not recognize a valid license, particularly under 10.4.10 or later.
• Sparkle update would sometimes not recognize a specific type of version number change.

* Fixed: Search field wouldn't filter library of cleaners in CleanKeys preferences.
* Fixed: Statistics "Characters (no spaces)" and "Characters (with spaces)" values were reversed.
* Fixed: Custom Cleaner Editor would not open in 10.3.9 due to a spurious 10.4 call.
* Fixed: BBEdit plug-in Undo name was out of sync (it was always one action behind).
* Fixed: BBEdit plug-in didn't always setup undo for cleaner action.
* Fixed: BBEdit plug-in could get confused as to cleaners available under Mailsmith.
* Fixed: Insert Text Action could hang in some cases if text field wasn't properly saved with action.
* Fixed: Rich Text with Attachments (RTFD) would not include attachments when saved.