What about TED ?

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: What about TED ?
started by: roberts

Posted by roberts on Oct. 23 2003,20:54

I am not having very good luck with FLWRITER.

It is OK if you are an island! But really, we all have to deal with M$ And Rich Text Format (RTF) is well supported by all M$ and others.

The small embedded word processor that has very good support for RTF is TED

Maybe if FLWriter is going to be better at RTF I would be happy.

I just think I had better get my requests in before DSL becomes a game machine.

Posted by John on Oct. 23 2003,21:20

>game machine
That's not going to happen. Those NES games and emulator (when compressed) are quite small. At this point I am looking in other directions.

Ted has a lot more dependencies.

Posted by roberts on Oct. 23 2003,22:17

I am glad to hear that it will not become a game machnie.

I was just reacting too quickly. I guess I have been working too hard!

John, what you have done is AWESOME !

I know Ted is Motif; make that Lessif like and so doesn't have a "normal" UI feel.
Especially for those new to Linux, plus needs the lessif libs.

Have you seen Ted-GTK?

Is FLWriter planning better RTF support?

Posted by ImNotHere on Oct. 23 2003,22:18

just out of interest.. how big is it?

Posted by ImNotHere on Oct. 24 2003,03:32

it being the NES emu

Posted by John on Oct. 24 2003,05:39

ImNotHere:
4.8M tuxnes
88K tuxnes.gz

Robert:
Ted-GTK is still quite large, ted-common is 1380kb.

Posted by ou_ryperd on Oct. 24 2003,08:35

Quote (roberts @ Oct. 23 2003,18:54)

I am not having very good luck with FLWRITER.
It is OK if you are an island! But really, we all have to deal with M$ And Rich Text Format (RTF) is well supported by all M$ and others.

I unfortunately have to work with M$ excel & Word docs with reasonably heavy formatting. So I installed OpenOffice 1.1 on my dsl 0.4.10 hd-install box. It works seamlessly. Woohoo !!!

Posted by ImNotHere on Oct. 24 2003,08:49

yay!

Posted by roberts on Oct. 24 2003,16:31

But you can't take it with you!!! (Your hard drive installed system) Can't fit the thing in any pockets that I have. :laugh:

I know I could take a full KNOPPIX CD and then take a nap while it boots and loads OO. Plus the dang thing still does not fit in my pocket protector.
I remastered DSL with TED just barely fits 50M (business card CD) I can take it with me. And it is fast.

DSL the pocket desktop appliance!

Posted by John on Oct. 25 2003,05:46

I've been digging through the files and looking at options. A good chunk of the size in Ted is the incorporated spell check. If I removed FLWriter, ispell and and iamerican (ispell's US spelling DB), and put in their place Ted-gtk it would be close to a wash regarding file size.

Posted by roberts on Oct. 25 2003,05:52

Yes!
That would be way cool.
Way better support for rich text format.
I have even been getting my friends who are on MS to send me rtf format word files instead of doc. Ted has been very good importing them. And Ted defaults to rtf. So I can always give them a Ted rtf file and they can read it.

Posted by DrWatt on Nov. 17 2003,01:30

I am much more happy with Ted than I was with FLwriter. (I installed it on 4.10 just to see what it was like). RTF, tables, footnotes, what what else can one really ask for in a word processor?

I want/need MS (RTF) compatibility. Of course when I am working, I am running DSL in a big machine with 256 megs of ram and 20 gigs of HD space. I have have abiword installed too and love it. Its all a learning experience for this linux newbie.

For those who want and need a shirt pocket distro Ted gets my vote. I could live without spell checkers, Dillo and several other apps to get RTF. When I really want small and fast I sometimes drop down to the bash prompt and use Joe, since I cut my teeth on Wordstar on a CPM machine.

Keep up the good work John.

Posted by DrWatt on Dec. 06 2003,16:23

I have been having some problems with Ted lately. I have been trying to do serious work with it, rather than just look at it for a few minutes.

I will be merrily typing some divinely inspired text and Poof!! Ted just disappears. The desktp is still there, but the divinely inspired text and that instance of Ted have vanished into thin air.

I can't seem to figure out any way to recover the text, although I can restart Ted with the Icon.

I may have caused my own problem by pointing my sources list to sid and updating it when I was playing with apt-get to test other applicattions. I have also had AbiWord exit quite rudely as well, even taking me out of X occasionally. Of course Abiword does strange things in WindozeXP too. Either save very often, or don't write what you can't rewrite with it.

I'm thinking of going back to stable in my sources list when 0.510 comes out. Any ideas?

Posted by John on Dec. 06 2003,23:48

Hi Doc, maybe try to purge ted* and reinstall, there's a good chance of you having library dependency issues.

Posted by John on Dec. 06 2003,23:50

Also, yeah, I would go back to stable.