Ted - an easy rich text editor

Ted [ filename ]

This manual page briefly documents the program Ted. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has on-line help; see below.

Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. Ted uses RTF (rich text format), a document format supported by Microsoft(tm) word processors, and various other applications, mostly (but not exclusively) on the MS-Windows(tm) platform.

Ted is designed to be as compatible as possible with MS-Windows(tm) applications. Every document produced by Ted should, without any loss of formatting or information, be accepted as a legal .rtf file by MS-Word(tm). Compatibility in the other direction is more difficult to achieve. Ted supports most basic text formatting, as supported by the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta information are ignored.

Ted includes support for in-line bitmap pictures, postscript printing, spell checking, tables, symbols, and more.

A sample application defaults file can be found in /usr/doc/ted-common/examples/Ted.ad.sample.gz. This file requires editing to be useful with Debian GNU/Linux, which is why it is not installed by default.

Ted supports some options for printing from the command-line. The options can start with either '++' or '--'. For the '++' commands, the X11 environment is only used to resolve configurable resources for these calls but it is still needed. This is a known deficiency of Ted. For the '--' commands, only the default settings compiled into Ted will be used.

--|++print file.rtf

Print file.rtf on the default printer (usually called lp).

--|++printToPrinter file.rtf printer

Print file.rtf on the printer named printer.

--|++printPaper file.rtf size

Print file.rtf on the default printer, using the specified paper size. Size should be one of the standard paper sizes known to Ted, i.e. 'a4', 'letter', etc.

--|++printToPrinterPaper file.rtf printer size

Print file.rtf on the specified printer, using the specified paper size.

--|++printToFile file.rtf file.ps

Convert file.rtf to a PostScript file named file.ps.

--|++printToFilePaper file.rtf file.ps size

Convert file.rtf to a PostScript file designed for paper of the specified size.

The on-line help available within Ted.

This manual page was written by Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).