Ted vs Abiword: which is better?

[Colonel Panic]

Hi, have used many word processors over the years and want to recommend Ted. The latest release 2.23 is excellent---fast, stable, all the core features: spell checking, image support, tables, font support, basic formatting, export to .ps, .pdf, .svg, .html, .txt, (default file type is .rtf). He, Mark, has improved the program steadily for years. Now it is really fine.

I would use Abiword only for converting .doc or .docx to .rtf for use with Ted and only if I had it installed. Other utilities can do this, too. Abiword works fine until it doesn't, which is all too often. Just my opinion.

I second this; having just installed Ted 2.23 in AntiX, I think it works just fine for producing basic documents such as letter writing.

[scientist]

Word 97 doesn't open any docx files

But there is a free converter program from Microsoft.

[mikeslr]

Hi All,

In Tahrpup, Ted broke geany. Maybe it's possible to strip it of the conflicting libs. But I think a better choice is Focus Writer. You'll find some versions here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 941#896941.

It comes as a 2636K pet. You read that right: 2636 Kilobytes. Don't be intimidated by its appearance as a blank sheet of paper. Scroll to the top and a series of icon tools appear. Among those is one for changing preferences --such as adding a toggle-button to turn on/off bolding, and italics. And many others.

I set it to use RTF as the default save format. But, if I recall correctly, you can choose odt. Yes, it can do spell-check.

[mikeslr]

Hi All,

I decided to put together a version of Ted for 64-bit operating systems run for RAM-Challenged computers: a pet weighing in at 3272 Kb vs. an SFS, such as LibreOffice, at 205 Mbs. This proved so easy that there's no reason to publish it. Just download the ted-2.23-linux-amd64.tar.gz from here, https://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/, extract it, rename the extracted folder to your liking, then dir2pet or dir2sfs it.

As I ran ldd on its binary before building, I received a report of one missing lib: "libtiff.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.4". Bionicpup64 has libtiff.so.5.3.0 so --building an SFS-- I created a symbolic link (named libtiff.so.4) to it. That might not have been necessary.

Although it's GUI isn't flashy, the application, itself, is actually rather feature-rich: along with the things you'd expect --changing fonts, font-sizes and paragraph formatting, it can handle tables, footnotes and endnotes, and include images.

Unlike my prior experience, installation of the Ted pet did not break geany.

[B.K. Johnson]

I used Ted eons ago, before Windows. Kinda curious to see its growth. Does Ted handle links/hypertext? It is this failure in AbiWord that turned me off. For a long time, I use Leafpad for simple text, Composer for everyday documents - HTML and LibreOffice for 'serious' documents required by WinPeople.

[mikeslr]

Does Ted handle hyperlinks? Yes. See Screen-shot. But I don't know how it works.

[B.K. Johnson]

Thanks mikeslr
I'll check it out when I switch to my experimental upupbb

[ozsouth]

My 2.23 version of Ted has hyperlink option greyed out.

For those who want a light document editor & a light browser, I have a Ted-Netsurf combo as .sfs files for Bionicpup64 & ScPup64. Can be renamed & placed with puppy .sfs files to load on boot. Note: will displace defaultwordprocessor & defaultbrowser in /usr/local/bin. Tested OK with Bionicpup64-8.0 & ScPup64-19.09. Use at own risk.

Bionicpup64 version here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=043 ... 3348093621

ScPup64 updated version here: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=995 ... 6415897833