Excalibur is a freeware spelling checker for the Macintosh
that is
also LaTeX aware.
Features include:
- Excalibur will offer suggestions for how to correct a word.
- Excalibur can spell check the clipboard. This makes
it a good
spelling checker for any text based application such
as Alpha or
SimpleText.
- Excalibur also works with Eudora, BBEdit, MT NewsWatcher,
ClarisWorks, WordPerfect, and any other program that
supports Word
Services.
- You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments
that you
define.
- You can create your own dictionaries.
- Works on any plain TEXT file. (type TEXT)
- Works on formatted files via Word Services.
- You will need System 7.1 or higher, a Power Macintosh,
and the
Appearance Manager to run Excalibur.
Version 2.6 of Excalibur is still available too.
It will run on
System 6.0.5 or greater, and it will run on any Macintosh
since the
Mac Plus.
- There is balloon help.
- The "Standard Dictionary" (American English)
distributed with
Excalibur has over 161,000 words.
- Dictionaries for atomic elements, British English,
Catalan, Danish,
Dutch (both old and new spellings), French, German,
HTML, Italian,
life sciences, Manx Gaelic, medical terms, Norwegian,
Portuguese,
Spanish, and Swedish. You can get these from
<ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu//pub/mac/Excalibur-dictionaries/>.
- If you're not a LaTeX user, you can get a copy of
the manual in
PostScript, HTML or Acrobat Reader (PDF) format from
<ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu//pub/mac/>.
There is also an on-line HTML version of the manual.
Point your
browser to
<http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~zaccone/Excalibur-manual/Excalibur-manual.html>
You can also get to the on-line version of the manual
through
Excalibur's Help menu.
- If you want to receive mail notifying you when the
next version of
Excalibur will be available, let me know. I will
add you to my
mailing list. Send mail to <zaccone@bucknell.edu>
and please
include a valid e-mail address.
You can also learn about current Excalibur versions
by visiting the
Excalibur home page:
<http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~excalibr/excalibur.html>
Bugs fixed in version 3.0.1:
- Fixed a warning message about Appearance not being
installed
properly.
- Fixed a URL parsing bug.
- Fixed a bug that caused possible data corruption if
you saved while
making corrections.
- Fixed problem with the About Box not appearing properly
on some
systems.
- Did some performance tuning.
Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bucknell.edu
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