ted(1)
NAME
Ted - an easy rich text editor
SYNOPSIS
Ted [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
- This manual page briefly documents the program Ted. This
- manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution be
- cause 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-Win
- dows(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 di
- rection is more difficult to achieve. Ted supports most basic
- text formatting, as supported by the Microsoft applications. Oth
- er 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 re
- quires editing to be useful with Debian GNU/Linux, which is why
- it is not installed by default.
OPTIONS
- 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 con
- figurable 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.
SEE ALSO
The on-line help available within Ted.
AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by Chris Waters <xtifr@de
- bian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
- others).
- 17 Dec 2002 2.12