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.

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 .rpm . To upgrade from a previous version of Ted give the command rpm -U .rpm. The corresponding command on Debian based Linux versions like Ubuntu is dpkg -i .deb. It takes care of installing as well as of upgrading. I used Ubuntu 9.04 to build the.deb files and fedora 11 to build the.rpm files.

To compile Ted from source. Refer to the compilation instructions at the end of this document.

Overview of the different packages

Package	Package files
Basic binary package for Intel Linux. (Includes American spelling)	ted-2.21-i386.deb ted-2.21-linux-ix86.tar.gz ted-2.21-1.i586.rpm
Dutch spelling and messages	ted_nl_NL-2.21.all.deb ted_NL_nl.tar.gz ted_nl_NL-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
British spelling	ted_en_GB-2.21.all.deb ted_en_GB.tar.gz ted_en_GB-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
German spelling and messages.	ted_de_DE-2.21.all.deb ted_de_DE.tar.gz ted_de_DE-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Spanish spelling and messages	ted_es_ES-2.21.all.deb ted_es_ES.tar.gz ted_es_ES-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Argentinian Spanish spelling and messages	ted_es_AR-2.21.all.deb ted_es_AR.tar.gz ted_es_AR-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Portuguese spelling	ted_pt_PT-2.21.all.deb ted_pt_PT.tar.gz ted_pt_PT-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Brazilian Portuguese messages	ted_pt_BR-2.21.all.deb ted_pt_BR.tar.gz ted_pt_BR-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
French spelling and messages.	ted_fr_FR-2.21.all.deb ted_fr_FR.tar.gz ted_fr_FR-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Italian spelling and messages	ted_it_IT-2.21.all.deb ted_it_IT.tar.gz ted_it_IT-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Czech spelling and messages	ted_cs_CZ-2.21.all.deb ted_cs_CZ.tar.gz ted_cs_CZ-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Danish spelling and messages	ted_da_DK-2.21.all.deb ted_da_DK.tar.gz ted_da_DK-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Swedish spelling	ted_sv_SE-2.21.all.deb ted_sv_SE.tar.gz ted_sv_SE-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Norwegian spelling and messages	ted_no_NO-2.21.all.deb ted_no_NO.tar.gz ted_no_NO-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Polish spelling and messages	ted_pl_PL-2.21.all.deb ted_pl_PL.tar.gz ted_pl_PL-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Slovak spelling and messages	ted_sk_SK-2.21.all.deb ted_sk_SK.tar.gz ted_sk_SK-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Hungarian messages	ted_hu_HU-2.21.all.deb ted_hu_HU.tar.gz ted_hu_HU-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Malagasy messages and manual	ted_mg_MG-2.21.all.deb ted_mg_MG.tar.gz ted_mg_MG-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Bulgarian spelling	ted_bg_BG-2.21.all.deb ted_bg_BG.tar.gz ted_bg_BG-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Russian spelling	ted_ru_RU-2.21.all.deb ted_ru_RU.tar.gz ted_ru_RU-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Croatian spelling	ted_hr_HR-2.21.all.deb ted_hr_HR.tar.gz ted_hr_HR-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Finnish spelling	ted_fi_FI-2.21.all.deb ted_fi_FI.tar.gz ted_fi_FI-2.21-1.noarch.rpm
Source1	ted-2.21-1.src.rpm ted-2.21.src.tar.gz
Original Documentation and Release Notes	TedDocument-en_US.rtf TedDocument-en_US.html TedDocument-en_US.pdf announce.html
Translated Documentation	TedDocument-de_DE.rtf TedDocument-de_DE.html TedDocument-de_DE.pdf TedDocument-fr_FR.rtf TedDocument-fr_FR.html TedDocument-fr_FR.pdf TedDocument-mg_MG.rtf TedDocument-mg_MG.html TedDocument-mg_MG.pdf
Spelling dictionary examples.	tedSpellExamples.tar.gz
rtf to pdf script rtf to PostScript script rtf to plain text script	rtf2pdf.sh. rtf2ps.sh rtf2txt.sh
Translated resource files for translators and those that like to install them by hand.	Ted_cs_CZ.ad Ted_da_DK.ad Ted_de_DE.ad Ted_es_ES.ad Ted_es_AR.ad Ted_pt_BR.ad Ted_fr_FR.ad Ted_hu_HU.ad Ted_it_IT.ad Ted_nl_NL.ad Ted_sk_SK.ad Ted_no_NO.ad Ted_pl_PL.ad Ted_mg_MG.ad Ted.ad.sample

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_.tar.gz is now ready. To install it on your machine, call make install. Installation must be done as root. (Or by a system user with sufficient permission to install software in /usr/local.) Those that cannot perform the last steps as root can call make private to get a private installation. The make private call will suggest the necessary modifications to your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file to run from a private installation. The ultimate possibility is to copy the Ted executable to a suitable location and to unpack the relevant files from the tedPackage/TedBindist.tar archive. Refer to the sections on installation and configuration for details.

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 Does
http://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.