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 will also spell check the clipboard, making it useful as a spelling checker for text editors, mail programs, etc.
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.
If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help.
Excalibur is free.
Version 1.4.1 includes the following changes.
• Repaired several minor bugs including better error handling under low memory conditions.
• You can now convert larger text files into dictionaries. If you create a really large dictionary you may not be able to read it with an older version of Excalibur.
• Excalibur knows about the conventions in german.sty. If you turn on the option to treat " as if it were \", Excalibur will also know about the hyphens and quotes defined in german.sty.
Version 1.4 includes the following changes.
• You may now spell check the contents of the clipboard. You may save the results back to the clipboard too.
• You may now teach Excalibur about new commands and environments that you have defined.
• Excalibur now handles the \cite command properly.
• Many smaller changes too.
• If you have an older version of Excalibur, you will need to rebuild your desktop in order to see the new icon for definition files.
