Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text spelling checker too.
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, BBEdit, or Eudora.
- You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments that you define.
- Optionally spell checks text in the typewriter (\tt) font.
- You can create your own dictionaries.
- Works on any plain TEXT file. (type TEXT)
- You will need System 6.0.5 or higher to run Excalibur. It will run on any Macintosh from a Mac Plus on up.
- If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help.
- Excalibur is free.
- British, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish dictionaries are also available. You can get these from ftp.eg.bucknell.edu in pub/mac/Excalibur-dictionaries.
- It runs in native mode on a PowerPC. This is a fat binary.
- 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.eg.bucknell.edu in pub/mac.
There is also an on-line HTML version of the manual. Point your browser to
- 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:
- Use a AGA compliant popup menu in the edit commands dialog if possible.
- Changed the Edit Commands dialog so that there is more room for the command name.
- The "Use german.sty conventions" option is now called "Use German babel conventions".
- Excalibur knows how to translate "s and "z when German babel conventions are turned on.
- Added a check box to the open file dialog that enables you to view only *.tex and *.ltx files. If you save preferences, Excalibur will remember the contents of this check box.
- Excalibur knows about the Catalan geminated-l digraph. In LaTeX, it recognizes \l.l and \L.L. Using the Macintosh character set, type l.l or L.L where the period is a centered dot.
- Modal dialogs are now moveable.
Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed a rare crashing bug when converting a dictionary to text.
- Fixed an minor update problem in the spell check window.
- Better error detection when opening files.
- Fixed a minor update problem in open and save file dialogs.
- Better handling of eastern European and extended Roman scripts.