Ted 2.17, an easy RTF text processor for Linux/Unix released.
 
Utrecht, January 28, 2005
 
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 word processor, having the role of Wordpad on MS-Windows. Since then, Ted has evolved to a real word processor that still has the same easy appearance as the original. The possibility to type a letter, a note or a report on a Unix/Linux machine is clearly missing. Only too often, you have to turn to MS-Windows machine to write a letter or a document. 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 2.16
(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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All tools have 'Close' button now. 
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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'. 
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Fixed a bug that moved lines to the next page even though they would fit. This makes the vertical layout of the pages closer to the layout in MS-Word. 
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Support for the Euro sign if the font supports it. 
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Facilities to read rtf files in mac roman encoding (\fcharset77\cpg10000) 
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Copy/Paste ruler now also copies/pastes the paragraph properties that relate to paragraph numbers. For this reason, the mechanism was changed. Ted 2.17 cannot paste the ruler that was copied by an older version, nor can the older version paste a ruler copied by Ted 2.17. 
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With some additional configuration, Ted can use most of the fonts configured in GhostScript. 
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As the combination of the extended font options and the new configuration mechanism open more possibilities to use external fonts, extensive documentation on fonts was added. 
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Use more CSS and fewer tables in generated HTML. 
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Many-many annoying bugs fixed. [Thanks Jonathan Drews for your thorough testing and the clear bug reports.] 
 
Details on Ted
 
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, 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
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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 and are subscripts and superscripts. 
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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. 
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In line bitmap and windows metafile pictures. 
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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. 
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Spelling checking in twelve Latin languages. 
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Directly mailing documents from Ted. Mail in HTML format is a multipart message that contains all images hyperlinks and footnotes. 
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Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications. 
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Find/Replace. 
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Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line, Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler. 
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Page breaks. 
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Page headers and footers. Page numbers in page headers and page footers. 
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Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width of tables with their ruler. 
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Symbols and accented characters are fully supported. 
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Hyperlinks and bookmarks. 
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Footnotes and endnotes. 
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Saving a document in HTML format. 
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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.
 
(Ted 2.15 and 2.16 April, 2004)
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Support for a second custom print command to support both ghostview for print preview and xpp for double sided printing. 
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Norwegian window texts 
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Printing (and so pdf conversion) of embedded macpict images 
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Mapping between rtf, PostScript and X11 fonts revisited. Preparations for the integration with the GhostScript font installation. Fonts can be embedded in the printout to print on any printer. 
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Many fixes to support Central European and Greek files. 
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Very thoroughly tested by Jonathan Drews and Axel Schwarzer. 
 
Changes since version 2.13
(Ted 2.14 April 6, 2003)
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Table Headers 
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Bug in image rendering on 256 color screens solved 
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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. 
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Default codepage for new documents now is 1252. The defaultAnsicpg resource must be used to set a different one. 
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Make the print dialog usable when there is a huge number of printers. 
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Partial implementation of rowspan/colspan of table cells. 
 
Changes since version 2.11
(Ted 2.12 December 1, 2002)
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GTK version is now more mature and even usable. Source Adapted to GTK 2.0 
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Solid shading of paragraphs and table cells. 
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Colored table cell borders, Text colors. 
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GTK version uses X11 resources for configuration, like the Motif version. 
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To change the hyperlinks as saved by older versions of Ted to blue and underlined once run the command TED_HYPERLINKS_BLUE=1 Ted old.rtf and save the document. 
 
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. 
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Added the posiibility to convert to PostScript and PDF without even touching the X11 environment. 
 
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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Functionality for making a table of contents such as references and page number references. 
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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. 
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Many features added for printing the document. Ted now also prints on Level 1 PostScript printers. 
 
Changes since version 2.5
(Ted 2.6: September 30, 1999)
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The HTML produced is now simpler and syntactically correct. 
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Better support for character sets different from latin 1. In particular for Latin2 documents. 
 
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)
 
January 28, 2005
Mark de Does.