Linux Themer: Give Ted some love!
In the land of [Microsoft] word processing, Microsoft Word is King, but perhaps WordPad is the Prince. WordPad has been a default part of the Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 95. After some years of neglect, it got a new makeover for Windows 7 and in all honesty, is all that most home users need to accomplish their word processing tasks.
In the land of FOSS/Linux, Libre Office is King, but who is Prince - AbiWord?
I would like to put forward an alternative, and it goes by the unlikely name of Ted.
Its author, Mark de Does, calls it "an easy rich text processor" and that's exactly what this is. Moreover, it was always intended to be the de-facto WordPad replacement for Unix/Linux. The default file format is RTF - a format that, although proprietary, is cross-platform and has been stable for many years. That means that whatever Ted produces and saves on Linux, will be untouched and replicated exactly on any other *Nix system, Microsoft, Apple, or even Android.
Originally built on the LessTif toolkit, it hasn't changed much over the years from inception, but is now compiled with the GTK+2 toolkit, so blends in much better on a conventional Linux desktop.
Ted is a bit quirky, but once you get used to the quirks, you will realise what a nice, clutter-free change from the norm it is.
You'll have to click File|New or press Ctrl+N on your keyboard to get a new document.
Then you are presented with a clutter-free page ready for typing. The first thing you notice is the lack of a toolbar. Don't let this fool you into thinking that it is a plain text only editor - everything is found in the menus, or by bring up the Format Tool dialog.
Leave this tool open and come back to it each time you need to change an aspect of the page. Click on the drop-down menu at the top and you'll see that you can use it to alter page characteristics, paragraph styles, insert a table, check spelling amongst other things.
A quick look through main application menu indicates you can insert images (which can be resized) and tables as well as other page processing commands.
Ted is lightweight to install, in terms of memory use and in terms of it's GUI. There are enough features 'under the hood' for the vast majority of anyone's home word processing tasks. In fact, it's on a par with Google Docs for text processing features. If you want a distraction-free word processor that won't take up much room on your hard drive or use precious CPU cycles, then I can heartedly recommend this product.
Ted is the default word processor on Theme-ix Linux releases.
Ted will open and a second after open a new blank file.
So Ted is another word processor software that we can use for word processing having these features? I am just amazed to know about this great program.
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