Editing Taste (software) (section)

{{Short description|Macintosh word processor}}
'''Taste''' is a [[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]] [[word processor]] that combined a number of basic features from [[page layout software]]—just a "taste" of it<ref name="infoworld-lowcosttaste" />—to build a unique solution to preparing documents. Taste was originally offered by DeltaPoint, the publishers of the famed [[MindWrite]], but was eventually spun off to a third party before finally disappearing. Taste works with [[Mac OS 9]], but not [[macOS]], and has not been available for purchase for several years. In many ways [[Apple Computer|Apple's]] recent [[Pages (iWork)|Pages]] application shares the basic "idea" of Taste, combining word processing with page layout.

Originally expected to retail for $99 in the low-end of the word processing market, Taste included a graphical page layout with an integrated drawing package and an address book with the capability of [[mail merge|mail-merging]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT34 |title=Delta Point Eyes Low-End Word Processor Market |magazine=InfoWorld |page=35 |date=June 26, 1989 |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> The product was available in 1991 for $149 with a scope of features found in many typical word processing packages, such as spelling checking, graphs and contents page generation.<ref name="infoworld-lowcosttaste">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dFAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |title=Delta Point Gives Users a Low-Cost Taste |magazine=InfoWorld |page=28 |date=January 14, 1991 |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref> Like a word processor, Taste allowed the user to simply start typing and continue doing so until they were finished. There was no need, as in a typical page layout program, to create a box to hold the text, or manually add pages or link columns as the document grew. Like a page layout program, Taste also allowed the user to add these boxes if needed, as well as adjust the distance between characters ([[kerning]]) or between lines in a paragraph. Fairly complex graphics can be created within this program.

Oddly Taste also lacks a number of features of MindWrite, although it appears to have been written by an entirely different programming team. For instance, Taste does not have a built-in [[outliner]], the "killer feature" of MindWrite which made it a favorite for many years. Nor does Taste include features like sorting or list generation.