Steven: I was able to find only one screenshot of Ted's interface on a quick search, which is located at the following url:
http://screenshots.sourceforge.net/wordprocessors/ted.html To me, Ted's interface seems alot more in keeping with the Bascilinux spirit - less "eye-candyish" than Abiword. Take a look and see what you think. As for compatibility with M$Word, here's what is said on the mainpage for Ted ( http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/#_NDEF_1 ): "Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role of Wordpad on MS-Windows. Since then, Ted has evolved to a real word processor that still has the same easy appearance as the original. The possibility to type a letter, a note or a report on a Unix/Linux machine is clearly missing. Only too often, you have to turn to MS-Windows machine to write a letter or a document. Ted was made to make it possible to edit rich text documents on Unix/ Linux in a wysiwyg way. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS-Word. Additionally, Ted also is an RTF to PostScript and an RTF to Acrobat PDF converter. Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted fully compatible with MS-Word without any loss of formatting or information. Compatibility in the other direction is more difficult to achieve. Ted supports many of the formatting features of the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta information are ignored. By ignoring unsupported formatting Ted tries to get the complete text of a document on screen or to the printer. Ted can be used to read formatted e-mail sent from a Windows machine to Unix, to print an RTF document, or to convert it to Acrobat PDF format." I earlier mentioned a document with advanced formatting that I created with Ted and that my wife was able to view, confirming accurate translation of all the formatting features. From what is said on Ted's site, one is not led to believe that it can import Word docs. As a test, I downloaded a simple 1 pg Word document and opened it with Abiword (1.03 on this machine). Abiword opened it fine. But the display was not quite right. Someone had written in the document about the "20th century". Those who use modern versions of M$Word will know that it automatically superscripts the "th" after a set to numbers, as in "20th". Well, in Abiword, everything in the text following "20th" also was turned into superscript - the last 1 1/2 paragraphs. Not good. So, I fired up Ted to try and open the document. By default, the "open" feature is set to display only files with the .rtf extension. Nonetheless, I switched it to display "all files", and there was my simple .doc there. I opened it with Ted and - viola - it displayed just fine. But above all, it did not turn everything after "20th" into supersript as Abiword had, but returned the document to normal typeface subsequent to that. Other than this, the document displayed with Ted exactly as it did in Abiword - including full justification (straight right and left margins). I would have to say that, though I didn't expect Ted to come out on top in this simple test, that it has bested Abiword so far. And, as I mentioned above, the interface seems much more BL'ish to me than Abiword's. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
