Text.tl (Text Tool) is an online service for the storing, sharing, annotating, analyzing and discussion of text documents and source code.
The service is free of charge with limitations. There is also an ad-free version with more and richer features for a monthly or yearly fee. (see: Paid Accounts)
Text.Tl and related/affiliated sites require JavaScript. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser or other application that accesses/consumes this site and related/affiliated sites or you will forfeit your right to support even if you are a paying customer.
Users own or are responsible for their posted content. Text.Tl is NOT responsible for nor do we claim any rights to user generated content (see: rights and terms). All other rights reserved.
Text.Tl is intended as a tool for programmers and writers to store, share, organize, annotate, analyze and discuss text documents and source code. New features intended to appeal to both writers and programmers are forthcoming.
A 'text' refers to source code or plain text files where original formatting is important and an 'article' is for formatted documents, like blog posts, essays, html and Markdown documents, among other kinds of documents.
Yes! If you select the article form, you can post Markdown and/or HTML, including images and hyperlinks. If you are familiar with Markdown, you can use the full Markdown syntax, including images and tables.
Allowed HTML tags are: a, b, blockquote, br, cite, code, div, dd, dl, dt, em, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, img, li, ol, p, pre, q, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, u, ul and all MathML tags. ASCIIMath backtick delimiters must be escaped (e.g.: \`2 + 2 = 4\`). All other tags, CSS and JavaScript will be stripped out.
Yes! If you select the article form, and check the box 'Contains LaTeX math, MathML or AsciiMath', your math will be nicely formatted. NOTE: When using ASCIIMath, you must escape backticks like so: \`2 + 2 =4\`
Go to Google Alerts and enter this in the search box: site:text.tl mysearchterm. For example, if you wanted a Google Alert for all posts in Text.tl that contained the word Java, you would enter: site:text.tl java
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Text.tl was built by Shawn Ewald. I am a senior software developer with a very diverse background and a wide variety of skills and I'm always looking for interesting software projects to work on.
Text.tl was built with the following technologies: Java, JSoup, Rome, Scribe, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, FontAwesome, PrismJS, MathJax, ShowdownJS, Jdenticon, qrcode.js, Stripe, MySQL and Apache It was designed to be highly portable, scalable and use as few local resources as possible while giving the user a quality experience.