Ted 2.7, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released
Jan 5th, 04:25 UTC
Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role
of Wordpad on MS-Windows, but more powerful.
Utrecht, December 31, 1999
Available from
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ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted
Description of Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role
of Wordpad on MS-Windows, but more powerful. In my opinion, the
possibility to type a letter or a note on a Unix/Linux machine is
clearly missing. Only too often, you have to turn to a Windows machine
to write a letter or an e-mail message. Teds function is to be able to
edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a wysiwyg way.
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 2.6
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(Ted 2.7: December 31, 1999)
- I made a mess of reading the spell checker dictionaries on
big endian machines: Fixed.
- A major step toward wysiwyg vertical layout: Pagination is
visible on screen.
- Preparations for page headers, footers and page numbers.
- Many features added for printing the document, such as
printing selections and multiple pages per sheet of paper.
- Ted now also prints on Level 1 PostScript printers. An
annoyance with locales that use a comma in decimal numbers and
printing has been removed.
- Various bugs and annoyances removed. A disturbing one
occasionally caused crashes when the last paragraph of a multi
page document was deleted.
Details on Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important
role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted should be
accepted as a legal .rtf file by Word without any loss of formatting
or information. Compatibility in the other direction is more difficult
to achieve. Ted supports most text formatting, as supported by the
Microsoft applications. Advanced formatting instructions and meta
information are ignored.*) By ignoring unsupported formatting Ted
tries to get the complete text of a document on screen. Ted can be
used to read formatted e-mail sent from a Windows machine to Unix, or
as an RTF viewer in Netscape.
Most of the ignored information is not saved either when you
modify and then save an RTF document with Ted.
Features
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- Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which
you have a .afm file and that are available as an X11 font.
Ted is delivered with .afm files for the Adobe fonts that are
available on Motif systems and in all postscript printers:
Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. Other fonts can be added
with the normal X11 procedure. Font properties like bold and
italic are supported; so is underlining.
- 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 pictures.
- Postscript printing.
- Spelling checking in several Latin languages.
- Directly mailing documents from Ted.
- Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications.
- Find/Replace.
- Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line,
Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler.
- Page breaks.
- Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width
of tables with their ruler.
- Symbols and accented characters are fully supported.
- Hyperlinks.
- Saving a document in HTML format.
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 2.5
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(Ted 2.6: September 30, 1999)
- Picture files and spelling dictionaries are now read in a
machine independent way..
- The HTML produced is now simpler and syntactically correct.
- Support for multiple line spacing, right and center tabs.
- In version 2.5 too much of the screen was redrawn while
typing.
- Hyperlinks are no longer automatically underlined. They are
printed in blue.
- Better support for character sets different from latin 1. In
particular for Latin2 documents.
- Subsequent steps in moving from the X11 layout on screen to
the exact PostScript layout.
Changes since version 2.4
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(Ted 2.5: July 31, 1999)
- Bugs fixed in picture drawing
- The layout of the text on the screen is no longer independent
of the PostScript layout. Whenever possible, the PostScript
layout is used on screen. Right aligned and centered text are
supported.
- The PostScript Ted saves to file contains so-called pdfmarks
to keep the links and bookmarks when they are converted to the
Acrobat PDF format.
- Use the new German orthography in the spell checker, thanks
to Joerg Jacke.
- Added a Polish spell checker.
Changes since version 2.3
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(Ted 2.4: May 21, 1999)
- Finding an X11 font with the PostScript font has been revised.
- Little bugs that prevented Ted from working with other than
Latin1 fonts removed.
- Spelling checkers for more languages are added.
- The Ted document has been improved. It is added as an online
document.
- Many fixes in printing and faxing documents.
- Copy/Paste of images improved. This is now possible on more
X11 configurations and with xv.
- Elementary support for interaction with session managers.
- A next round in the ongoing struggle with all those different
window managers.
- Some compilation procedure fixes. Distribution also in RPM
format.
Changes since version 2.2
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Compared to version 2.2, 2.3 is yet another usability update. (Ted
2.3: March 11, 1999)
- Printing of tables.
- Support for space before/after paragraphs.
- X11 servers with a 'depth' that is not a multiple of 8
supported. Better cooperation with widow managers that do not
force a window to fit on the screen.
- Better picture support.
- Better conformance to commonly accepted user interface
conventions.
Changes since version 2.0
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Compared to version 2.0, 2.2 does not offer much more functionality.
Many little features have been added, and a myriad of bugs has been
fixed. The user interface has been polished a lot to improve Teds
usability. (Ted 2.2:February 6, 1999)
- The compilation procedure has been improved a lot, and Ted
has been tested with LessTif.
January 3, 2000
Mark de Does.
(Submitted by Dwight Johnson of Linux Today)
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