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.
Some new features of Excalibur 1.2 include:
* It saves your preferences between invocations.
* You can convert dictionaries to text files so that you may edit them.
* You can convert text files to dictionaries.
* Excalibur recognizes Apple's extended character set. This should help non-English speaking users.
* Support for AMS-LaTeX
* Support for drag and drop operations
* LaTeX manual.
* Many other changes. See Excalibur Genealogy in the help facility or in the LaTeX manual for more details.
***Important***
If you have an old version of Excalibur, be sure to replace the Standard Dictionary with the new one. We found a couple of problems with the old Standard Dictionary.
