Cleaner Groups
Groups
A group is simply a collection of cleaners. Groups provide a great way to organize cleaners for a specific task or project. There are two types of groups: built-in and custom. Built-in groups cannot be edited. Custom groups can be edited.
Within a custom group, you can specify which cleaners are included, their order, at (optionally, their color). The cleaners in a group can be any of the built-in cleaners or any custom cleaners you have created.
Built-in groups
- Library - A list of all the cleaners available in TextSoap.
- Standard - A list of the more commonly used cleaners plus custom cleaners.
- Basics - A list of the more commonly used cleaners.
- Email - A list of cleaners useful in dealing with emails.
- Typographical - A list of cleaners for handling typographically related text processing, such as Ellipsis, Em Dash or En Dash conversions.
- Case Conversions - A list of cleaners related to change text case.
- Text Quoting - A list of cleaners to help when quoting various text.
- Dates - Date formatting options that include using the System Preferences or one of the more common date formats (like MM-DD-YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY, or YYYY-MM-DD).
- Remove Extraneous - A list of common cleaners used when removing extra characters.
- Paragraph Rulers - A list of cleaners related to change paragragh ruler settings.
- Markdown - A list of cleaners related to Markdown formatting.
- HTML - A list of cleaners to work with raw HTML text. It includes cleaners that tag text with a variety of pre-defined HTML tags.
- Plist - A list of cleaners to work with a PLIST, an XML format used by Mac developers.
- Custom - A list of cleaners created by end-users.
Group Editor
You can access your custom groups (for editing) using the Navigator. Simply double-click on the custom group you wish to open.
To create a new group, select the plus (+) sign to add, and select "New Custom Group". To duplicate an existing group, select the group and select the duplicate button.
Editing a Custom Group

The editor is separated into two panes.
The left pane is a palette of cleaners available to add. As in the case of the cleaner palette throughout the app, you can click on upper left list button to show a list of groups. Select a new group to display it.
The right pane defines the selected group. Each item represents a cleaner and a custom color button.
- To rename a group, click on the group name at the top and change its name.
- To add a cleaner to the group, click on the cleaner in the left pane (just as you would to apply a cleaner). It will be added to the end of the list.
- To re-arrange items, click and drag them into their new position.
- To change the color of an item, click on the color button and select a new color.
- To delete an item, select one or more items in the right pane and select Edit > Delete (or press the Delete key).
- To add a label, click the "Add Label" button.
- To add a separator, click the "Add Separator" button.
- To edit an existing label, click and wait for a moment.