This is release 3.0.2 of Excalibur, June 18, 2000

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 Pro, BBEdit, MT NewsWatcher,
  Communicate, Nisus Writer, AppleWorks (formerly 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 162,000 words.

- Dictionaries for atomic elements, biblical terms, biomedical terms,
  British English, Catalan, Danish, Dutch (both old and new
  spellings), French, German, HTML, Indonesian, Italian, life
  sciences, Manx Gaelic, medical terms, Norwegian, Portuguese,
  Spanish, and Swedish are available.  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 3.0.2:

- Added about 500 words to the Standard Dictionary.  Most are proper
  names.  The dictionary now contains 162,459 words.  This is version
  2.2 of the Standard Dictionary.

- Single clicking on a suggestion copies it to the Change To: box.
  Double clicking makes the change.

Bugs Fixed:

- Fixed the dialog that warns of an old version of the Appearance Manager.
  It needed to be a bit larger.

- Fixed a URL parsing bug.  Excalibur would sometimes think that a
  left curly brace was part of a URL.  As a result, you would get a
  LaTeX parsing error.

- Words that contain a long Hungarian umlaut are now added to the
  dictionary properly.

- Excalibur will run with a monitor that displays just black and
  white.

- Increased the size of the tabs in the preferences dialog.

- Excalibur no longer becomes unresponsive for 60 seconds after trying
  to open a locked file.

- User defined environment names may optionally end in an asterisk.

- Excalibur is more careful about declaring that user definitions are
  dirty.

- Use the new icon and file type for emacs files.

Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bucknell.edu