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WASTE text engine
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<p>The WASTE (an acronym for WorldScript-aware styled text engine) is an <a href="/facts/Apple_Macintosh/8GhnXTK0">Apple Macintosh</a> text editing <a href="/facts/Software/RP79lVSW">software</a> <a href="/facts/Library_(computer_science)/xRzL3P7q">library</a>. WASTE helps Macintosh programmers include advanced text display and editing in their applications. </p><p>WASTE is a memory-based editor, which places <a href="/facts/Zero_one_infinity_rule/C3arGALs">no arbitrary limit</a> on the amount of text being edited, up to available system memory. It supports the Macintosh <a href="/facts/WorldScript/KvQaIW9t">WorldScript</a> system, allowing it to handle <a href="/facts/DBCS/zRNCbR2p">double-byte character sets</a> and <a href="/facts/Bi-directional_text/7xafVLBG">bi-directional text</a>. It includes automatic support for undo operations, <a href="/facts/Drag_and_drop/7Xd8vXfn">drag and drop</a> editing, <a href="/facts/Justification_(typesetting)/aG2SXyfl">text justification</a>, embedding images into text, and low-level hooks for rendering and measuring text. </p><p>WASTE version 2.0 gained support for paragraph-level formatting, additional character styles, multiple undo and redo operations, <a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Unicode</a> translation, and <a href="/facts/Mac_OS_X/Y93vVpTm">Mac OS X</a> <a href="/facts/Carbon_(computing)/KAIwFWI2">Carbon</a> support, as well as providing new <a href="/facts/Application_programming_interface/GMlN4vUr">application programming interfaces</a> (APIs) for printing and string matching. </p><p>WASTE is a popular third party library used in many Macintosh applications, formerly under the <a href="/facts/Classic_Mac_OS/I5fQq44K">Classic Mac OS</a> and more recently under Mac OS X, including <a href="/facts/Netscape_Navigator/f9m231Wp">Netscape Navigator</a>, <a href="/facts/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac/5UFTCbja">Internet Explorer</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Entourage/se72eBNa">Microsoft Entourage</a>, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Office_2011/4P0Uf1k1">Microsoft Outlook for Mac</a>, <a href="/facts/REALbasic/ColkhLN1">REALbasic</a>, and <a href="/facts/Tex-Edit_Plus/bxdgeoPF">Tex-Edit Plus</a>. </p><p>Since WASTE uses deprecated <a href="/facts/QuickDraw/a3QlTctp">QuickDraw</a> features, it was deprecated in Mac OS X version 10.4 and unsupported as of version 10.6. </p>