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)
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Stability fixes.
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Many-many annoying bugs fixed.
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Some steps to support the few missing features such as absolutely positioned objects and shapes.
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Preparations for bidirectional text support
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Comply with LSB directory layout
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Conformant deb and rpm packages
 
Mark de Does
mark@mdedoes.com
 
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.
 
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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.
Find/Replace.
Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line, Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler.
Page breaks.
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.
Footnotes and endnotes.
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)
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Thorough brush-up of the internals.
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Undu/Redo/Recovery
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Many-many annoying bugs fixed.
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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)
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Many improvements in the rendering of embedded images.
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Removed functionality that is not directly related to word processing and document formatting. (Email, Fax)
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Added GUI functionality that I forgot while moving to GTK.
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Can now embed fonts from a true type collection in the printout
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Moved more ad-hoc dialogs to the format tool as a preparation for a better UI
 
(Ted 2.20 June 7, 2009)
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Versions 2.18 and 2.19 were private versions. They were never published.
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Vertical alignment of table cells.
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Multi column layout (of sections).
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Text background and text borders
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Table of Contents
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Unicode compliant (So most scripts and fonts are now supported)
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Use fontconfig: Removed restrictions on the collection of fonts that Ted can use; Use Freetype/Xft for anti aliassed text rendering
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Can now render nested tabes. (They are not yet supprted in the user interface)
 
(Ted 2.17 Jan 28, 2005)
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Numbered lists finished.
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Yet more footnote bugs fixed.
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Behaviour of explicit line and page breaks simulates that of MS-Word.
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Made a configurable resources mechanism that works without X11 for command line calls.
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Improvements in numbered lists functionality: Opened user interface.
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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)
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Fonts can be embedded in the printout to print on any printer.
 
Changes since version 2.13
(Ted 2.14 April 6, 2003)
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Table Headers
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Tabs in page headers/footers compatible with MS-Word 2000
 
Changes since version 2.12
(Ted 2.13 March 15, 2003)
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Options for making much more compact PostScript when a document is printed.
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Support for smallcaps.
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Upgraded the pdfmarks to a version that more recent versions of acroread support.
 
Changes since version 2.11
(Ted 2.12 December 1, 2002)
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Solid shading of paragraphs and table cells.
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Colored table cell borders, Text colors.
 
Changes since version 2.10
(Ted 2.11 March 1, 2002)
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Footnotes and endnotes.
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Detailed manipulation of the tabulator settings with a 'Tabs' tool.
 
Changes since version 2.9
(Ted 2.10 April 30, 2001)
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Widow/Orphan control.
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Keep paragraph on one page, Keep paragraph on same page as next supported.
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Better support for sending MIME and HTML mail. Include images in message.
 
Changes since version 2.8
(Ted 2.9 January 31, 2001)
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Full support for page headers and footers including page numbers.
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Command line conversion to html or to plain text.
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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)
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Editing behavior closer to that of Word. E.G. support for Control key in navigation and selection has been extended.
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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)
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A major step toward wysiwyg vertical layout: Pagination is visible on screen.
 
Changes since version 2.5
(Ted 2.6: September 30, 1999)
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The HTML produced is now simpler and syntactically correct.
 
Changes since version 2.4
(Ted 2.5: July 31, 1999)
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Right aligned and centered text are supported.
 
Changes since version 2.3
(Ted 2.4: May 21, 1999)
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Little bugs that prevented Ted from working with other than Latin1 fonts removed.
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The Ted document has been improved. It is added as an online document.
 
Changes since version 2.2
(Ted 2.3: March 11, 1999)
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Printing of tables.
 
Changes since version 2.0
(Ted 2.2: February 6, 1999)
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Usability improvements.
 
First release
(Ted 2.0: November 9, 1998)