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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 07:10:32 EST
From: zaccone@sol.cs.bucknell.edu (Rick Zaccone)
Subject: Excalibur 1.3
Excalibur 1.3 1/10/93
Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. It also
does a fairly good job with plain TeX files. It reads files of type
TEXT and it is smart enough to ignore most LaTeX commands and a fair
number of plain TeX commands. Since it just ignores these commands, it
will also serve quite nicely as a spelling checker for any TEXT file
that doesn't contain any LaTeX or TeX commands. (It is not completely
accurate to say that Excalibur ignores LaTeX commands. It will process
any arguments that contain text).
Excalibur is a stand-alone application that we have tested with both
OzTeX and Textures documents. The fact that it is a stand-alone
application should not present any inconvenience since it works with
MultiFinder under System 6 and it is System 7 aware.
You will need System 6.0.4 or higher to run Excalibur.
There is extensive on-line help. You will find it under the Apple menu
if you are running System 6, and under the Balloon Help menu if you
are running System 7 or greater.
Excalibur is free.
Some new features of Excalibur 1.3 include:
Excalibur handles disk insert events. If you insert an uninitialized
disk while Excalibur is running, it will ask you if you want to
initialize it.
Excalibur now recognizes the \lefteqn command.
Excalibur positions alerts and dialogs according to the Human
Interface Guidelines.
Excalibur saves both the resource and data forks of a file.
Previously, it didn't save the resource fork under System 7.
Excalibur looks at the "Do LaTeX Parsing" option when doing text to
dictionary conversions. If this option is checked, Excalibur will
recognize TeX accents and ligatures in words.
Text to Dictionary conversions are faster. They also require somewhat
more memory.
Excalibur correctly updates the document window.
Drag and Drop should work better.
Numerous bug fixes.
Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bucknell.edu
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