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- This is release 3.0.1 of Excalibur, November 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 (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
-