Ted 2.0, an easy to run and easy to install Rich Text Processor for Linux/Unix 
released under the Gnu Public License.

Utrecht, November 9, 1998

Today, November 9, 1998, Mark de Does releases his wysiwyg rich text processor 
Ted for Linux under the GNU/General Public License. With this realease he 
wants to contribute to the personal productivity of Linux users. The software 
shows that appealing Linux software that is easy to use and easy to install 
indeed exists. Ted is available from http://www.de-does.demon.nl.

Ted was built as an operating system accessory like Wordpad for Linux. 
Compatibility with Macintosh and Windows word processing applications played 
an important role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted is a 
legal something.rtf file for Word without any loss of formatting or 
information. In the other direction, compatibility with Word is not perfect, 
but a major part of the functionality of Word is supported.

Mark is a professional software developer working on more computer platforms 
than just Windows. He was annoyed by the fact that every time he had to 
produce a presentable text, he had to revert to Windows to type and format it. 
About a year ago, he decided that the only way to provide what is so dearly 
missing, was to build a little word processor himself. The project required 
much more work than he ever expected. Now that Ted is out in the world, he 
feels quite relieved and hopes to have contributed to the usability of Linux.

For detailed information and downloads, refer to the Ted web site 
http://www.de-does.demon.nl.

Teds features include the following:

·	Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which you have 
	an .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.
·	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.
·	In line bitmap pictures.
·	Postscript printing.
·	Spelling checking in several Latin languages. (English, Dutch, 
	German, Portuguese, French and Spanish.)
·	Directly mailing documents from Ted.
·	Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications.
·	Find/Replace.
·	Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line, Tabs. 
	Copy/Paste Ruler.
·	Page breaks.
·	Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width of 
	tables with their ruler.
·	Symbols and accented characters are fully supported.
·	Hyperlinks.
·	Saving a document in HTML format.