Ted
2.23, an easy RTF text processor for Linux/Unix released.
Utrecht, Feb 4, 2013
Available from
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted
Description of Ted
Ted
is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. Ted was developed as a standard easy
light weight word processor, having the role of
Wordpad on MS-Windows. Since then, Ted has evolved to a real word
processor. It still has the same easy appearance and the same speed as the
original. The possibility to type a letter, a note or a report with a
simple light weight program on a Unix/Linux machine is clearly missing. Ted was made to make it possible to edit
rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a wysiwyg way. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS-Word.
Additionally, Ted also is
an RTF to PostScript and an RTF to Acrobat PDF converter.
To my own modest opinion, Ted is really easy to use and of good
quality. I hope that you will find Ted useful.
Changes since version 2.22
(Ted 2.23 February 4, 2013)
*
Many-many
annoying bugs fixed.
*
Some
steps to support the few missing features such as absolutely positioned
objects and shapes.
*
Preparations
for bidirectional text support
*
Comply
with LSB directory layout
*
Conformant
deb and rpm packages
Mark de
Does
Details on Ted
Ted is a text
processor running on the Unix/Linux desktop. Compatibility with popular
MS-Windows applications played an important role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted should, without any loss of
formatting or information, be accepted as a legal .rtf file by Word. Compatibility in the other
direction is more difficult to achieve. Ted supports many of the formatting features of the Microsoft
applications. Other formatting instructions and meta information are
ignored.*) By ignoring unsupported formatting Ted tries to get the complete text of a document on screen or to
the printer. Ted can be
used to read formatted e-mail sent from a Windows machine to Unix, to print
an RTF document, or to convert it to Acrobat PDF format. Below we explain
how to configure Ted as an
RTF viewer in Netscape and how to convert an RTF document to PDF with Ted and
GhostScript.
*)
Most
of the ignored information is not saved either when you modify and then
save an RTF document with Ted.
Features
•
Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which you
have a .afm file and that are available. Other fonts can be added with the
normal fontconfog or X11 procedure. Font properties like bold and italic
are supported; so is underlining and are subscripts and superscripts.
•
Ted uses Microsoft RTF as its native
file format. Microsoft Word
and Wordpad can read files
produced by Ted. Usually Ted can read .rtf files from Microsoft Word and
Wordpad. As Ted does not support all features of Word, some formatting information might be lost.
•
In line bitmap and windows metafile pictures.
•
PostScript printing of the document and its illustrations. Saved
PostScript files contain pdfmarks that are converted to hyperlinks when
they are converted to Acrobat PDF.
•
Spelling checking in twelve Latin languages.
•
Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications.
•
Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line, Tabs.
Copy/Paste Ruler.
•
Page headers and footers. Page numbers in page headers and page
footers.
•
Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width of
tables with their ruler.
•
Symbols and accented characters are fully supported.
•
Hyperlinks and bookmarks.
•
Saving a document in HTML format.
•
Probably the best illustration of what you can do with Ted is its documentation that has been
made with Ted.
For a detailed description and a manual,
refer to the readme.* files on the web site in plain text, HTML or RTF
format.
Changes since version 2.21
(Ted 2.22 April 4, 2012)
*
Thorough
brush-up of the internals.
*
Many-many
annoying bugs fixed.
*
Some
steps to support the few missing features such as absolutely positioned
objects and shapes.
Changes since version 2.20
(Ted 2.21 October 20, 2009)
*
Many
improvements in the rendering of embedded images.
*
Removed
functionality that is not directly related to word processing and document
formatting. (Email, Fax)
*
Added
GUI functionality that I forgot while moving to GTK.
*
Can
now embed fonts from a true type collection in the printout
*
Moved
more ad-hoc dialogs to the format tool as a preparation for a better UI
(Ted 2.20 June 7, 2009)
*
Versions
2.18 and 2.19 were private versions. They were never published.
*
Vertical
alignment of table cells.
*
Multi
column layout (of sections).
*
Text
background and text borders
*
Unicode
compliant (So most scripts and fonts are now supported)
*
Use
fontconfig: Removed restrictions on the collection of fonts that Ted can
use; Use Freetype/Xft for anti aliassed text rendering
*
Can
now render nested tabes. (They are not yet supprted in the user interface)
(Ted 2.17 Jan 28, 2005)
*
Numbered
lists finished.
*
Yet
more footnote bugs fixed.
*
Behaviour
of explicit line and page breaks simulates that of MS-Word.
*
Made
a configurable resources mechanism that works without X11 for command line
calls.
*
Improvements
in numbered lists functionality: Opened user interface.
*
Preliminary
support for 'shapes': The newer Word figures mechanism. The Word
97 Drawing Objects are mapped to 'shapes'.
(Ted 2.15 and 2.16 April, 2004)
*
Fonts
can be embedded in the printout to print on any printer.
Changes since version 2.13
(Ted 2.14 April 6, 2003)
*
Tabs
in page headers/footers compatible with MS-Word 2000
Changes since version 2.12
(Ted 2.13 March 15, 2003)
*
Options
for making much more compact PostScript when a document is printed.
*
Upgraded
the pdfmarks to a version that more recent versions of acroread support.
Changes since version 2.11
(Ted 2.12 December 1, 2002)
*
Solid
shading of paragraphs and table cells.
*
Colored
table cell borders, Text colors.
Changes since version 2.10
(Ted 2.11 March 1, 2002)
*
Detailed
manipulation of the tabulator settings with a 'Tabs' tool.
Changes since version 2.9
(Ted 2.10 April 30, 2001)
*
Keep
paragraph on one page, Keep paragraph on same page as next supported.
*
Better
support for sending MIME and HTML mail. Include images in message.
Changes since version 2.8
(Ted 2.9 January 31, 2001)
*
Full
support for page headers and footers including page numbers.
*
Command
line conversion to html or to plain text.
*
The
improvements in WMF drawing and support for PAGEREF fields make the pdf
files from the printed postscript very similar to the RTF original.
Changes since version 2.7
(Ted
2.8: April 15, 2000)
*
Editing
behavior closer to that of Word. E.G. support for Control key in navigation
and selection has been extended.
*
The
spelling packages have been renamed since Ted 2.6 to comply with naming conventions. If rpm complains about
conflicts, please remove the conflicting old package using the command rpm
-e old_package.
Changes since version 2.6
(Ted
2.7: December 31, 1999)
*
A
major step toward wysiwyg vertical layout: Pagination is visible on screen.
Changes since version 2.5
(Ted
2.6: September 30, 1999)
*
The
HTML produced is now simpler and syntactically correct.
Changes since version 2.4
(Ted
2.5: July 31, 1999)
*
Right
aligned and centered text are supported.
Changes since version 2.3
(Ted 2.4: May 21, 1999)
*
Little
bugs that prevented Ted
from working with other than Latin1 fonts removed.
*
The Ted document has been improved. It is
added as an online document.
Changes since version 2.2
(Ted 2.3: March 11, 1999)
Changes since version 2.0
(Ted 2.2: February 6, 1999)
First release
(Ted 2.0: November 9, 1998)