Excalibur Features

• Excalibur recognizes LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, and epic commands. It also recognizes a fair number of plain TeX commands.
• You can teach Excalibur about new commands and environments that you define.
• Excalibur knows about accented characters and ligatures. This should help non English speaking users. They can add words with accents and ligatures to their dictionaries.
• Excalibur knows about discretionary hyphens.
• Excalibur will optionally ignore text in the \tt font. This is very useful for people (like us) who are in computer science and often sprinkle their documents with file names in the typewriter font.
• Excalibur ignores everything that appears in the following environments:

  alltt	equation
  cprog	math
  displaymath	subeqnarray
  eqnarray	verbatim
  eqnarray*	verbatim*

  Excalibur ignores the following AMS-LaTeX environments:

  align	gather*
  align*	multiline
  alignat	multiline*
  alignat*	xalignat
  comment	xalignat*
  equation*	xxalignat
  gather	xxalignat*

  It also ignores everything that appears within

  • \[...\], \(...\),$...$, $$...$$ and \begintt...\endtt.
• Excalibur ignores the arguments of \verb and \verb* commands.
• Excalibur is 32-bit clean and System 7 friendly.
• Excalibur will warn you if it thinks it found a LaTeX syntax error in a file. This usually means that you have unmatched braces, unmatched \begin ...\end pairs, or an unmatched math mode delimiter.
• Excalibur will spell check the contents of the clipboard. You can copy text to the clipboard, have Excalibur check it, and then write the results back onto the clipboard. With this feature you can use Excalibur as a spelling checker for programs such as Eudora.