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This is release 3.0 of Excalibur, October 11, 1999
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, French, German, HTML, Italian, life sciences, Manx Gaelic,
medical terms, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish. 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>
New features in version 3.0:
- Excalibur will now optionally skip over URLs. By default, it will
skip over URLs when spell checking.
- You can zoom and grow Excalibur's window.
- Preferences are now in a tab panel and they are automatically saved.
- Spell checking, particularly on large documents, is much faster.
- Text to dictionary conversions are dramatically faster, regardless
of the ordering of the original text file. Dictionary to text
conversions are about twice as fast as before.
- Adding words to an existing dictionary is faster.
- Improved how Replace Throughout works. Excalibur now does a better
job with case preservation and multi-word replacements.
- Made some corrections to the Standard Dictionary. Eliminated a few
errors and added more words. There are now 161,855 words in the
Standard Dictionary!
- Improved suggestions.
- There are keyboard equivalents for most operations.
- Excalibur is still freeware, but I am asking people who use
Excalibur on a regular basis to consider voluntarily helping me with
some of my development costs. See the release notes in the
Excalibur manual for details.
Bugs fixed:
- Fixed a bug that caused the last word in a text file to sometimes
not get included when doing a text to dictionary conversion.
Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bucknell.edu