Ted for Linux: copyright and disclaimer
Ted is free software. By making Ted freely available, I want to contribute to the propagation of Linux as a viable platform for technical computer enthusiasts. As Ted is free software, I assume no responsibility for the consequences of using it. It is up to you to decide whether Ted suits your purpose or not. Ted is distributed with absolutely no warranty under the terms of the GNU Public License.
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.
Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted fully compatible with MS-Word without any loss of formatting or information. 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.1 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.
I hope that you will find Ted useful. Please report the bugs you find, such that I can fix them.
Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted fully compatible with MS-Word without any loss of formatting or information. 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.1 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.
I hope that you will find Ted useful. Please report the bugs you find, such that I can fix them.
How to install Ted
The installation of Ted depends on the platform and on the kind of distribution. Binary distributions for Intel ix86 Linux are available from the download site ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted. The distribution comes in the form of compressed tar archives and as Red Hat package manager (RPM) packages and Debian installer packages (DEB). Binary distributions for other platforms might be available. For more or more recent information refer to the Ted web site http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted.To install Ted or one of the localization packages from an RPM package, log in as root, (Or any system user with sufficient permissions to install packages.) and give the command rpm -i
To compile Ted from source. Refer to the compilation instructions at the end of this document.
Overview of the different packages
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Package files
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Basic binary package for Intel Linux. (Includes
American spelling)
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Dutch spelling and messages
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British spelling
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German spelling and messages.
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Spanish spelling and messages
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Argentinian Spanish spelling and messages
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Portuguese spelling
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Brazilian Portuguese messages
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French spelling and messages.
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Italian spelling and messages
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Czech spelling and messages
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Danish spelling and messages
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Swedish spelling
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Norwegian spelling and messages
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Polish spelling and messages
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Slovak spelling and messages
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Hungarian messages
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Malagasy messages and manual
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Bulgarian spelling
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Russian spelling
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Croatian spelling
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Finnish spelling
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Source1
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Original Documentation and Release Notes
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Translated Documentation
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Spelling dictionary examples.
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rtf to pdf script
rtf to PostScript script
rtf to plain text script
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Translated resource files for translators and those
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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. For languages that use the Latin 2 character set, Latin 2 fonts are best. The ult1mo package is a useful collection of Latin 2 fonts. The current version does not give an ItalicAngle for the bold italic fonts. For the correct operation of Ted, a negative italic angle should be inserted manually.
A collection of Ted packages for the NetBSD operating system is available via ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/editors/ted/README.html. A french translation of Ted by Jean Peyratout can be found on the page http://www.abul.org/education/ted.php3. Axel Schwarzer ported Ted to some Unix versions. His ports can be found via http://pweb.uunet.de/schwarzer.d/.
Compiling Ted from source
To compile and link Ted, get the source code from the download site ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted. Unpack the archive and follow the instructions below. If you use other Unix versions than Linux, realize that the construction of a distribution package uses the gzip compression utility and the chown root:root syntax.I want to express my gratitude to the authors of all the free software libraries I have used for Ted. Without them, a project like Ted would have been impossible.
Unpacking the source archive results in a Ted-2.21 directory. To compile the executable simply issue the command make in the Ted-2.21 directory. There is no need to call configure as this is done by make. You can change some compilation options by editing the top level makefile. Refer to the comments in the top of the file. When make is successful, there is a Ted executable in the Ted directory. To make an installation package, call make package. On traditional Unix systems that do not not use gnu tar, this must be done as root. The installation package tedPackage/ted_
Note the deb and sysvpkg targets for packaged distributions in the root Makefile. Building rpm packages works differently. The file tedPackage/debian-control.infile is the source for a Debian package control file. It also documents Teds dependencies on other Linux packages.
Author
Mark de Doeshttp://www.mdedoes.com
October 20 2009
More or more recent information on Ted might be available from the Ted web site http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted. The latest versions and the source code from ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted.
- P.S.
- Please do not insert my mail address in web pages that refer to me or to Ted. Plain text email adresses are automatically harvested from the web to send unsollicited email. You can either refer to the web page or use an image.