NAME
Ted-gtk - an easy rich text editor
SYNOPSIS
Ted-gtk [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the program Ted-gtk. 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-gtk is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. Ted-gtk 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-gtk is designed to be as compatible as possible with MS-Windows(tm) applications. Every document produced by Ted-gtk 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-gtk supports most basic text formatting, as supported by the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta information are ignored.
Ted-gtk 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.
OPTIONS
Ted-gtk 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-gtk. For the '--' commands, only the default settings compiled into Ted-gtk will be used.
- --|++print file.rtf
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Print file.rtf on the default printer (usually called lp).
- --|++printToPrinter file.rtf printer
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Print file.rtf on the printer named printer.
- --|++printPaper file.rtf size
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Print file.rtf on the default printer, using the specified paper size. Size should be one of the standard paper sizes known to Ted-gtk, i.e. 'a4', 'letter', etc.
- --|++printToPrinterPaper file.rtf printer size
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Print file.rtf on the specified printer, using the specified paper size.
- --|++printToFile file.rtf file.ps
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Convert file.rtf to a PostScript file named file.ps.
- --|++printToFilePaper file.rtf file.ps size
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Convert file.rtf to a PostScript file designed for paper of the specified size.
SEE ALSO
The on-line help available within Ted-gtk.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Chris Waters <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).