Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text spelling checker too.
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, BBEdit, or Eudora.
- You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments that you define.
- Optionally spell checks text in the typewriter (\tt) font.
- You can create your own dictionaries.
- Works on any plain TEXT file. (type TEXT)
- You will need System 6.0.5 or higher to run Excalibur. It will run on any Macintosh from a Mac Plus on up. (Should I continue to support System 6? Send me mail if you're using System 6.)
- If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help.
- Excalibur is free.
- British, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish dictionaries are also available. You can get these from ftp.eg.bucknell.edu in pub/mac/Excalibur-dictionaries.
- It runs in native mode on a PowerPC. This is a fat binary.
- If you're not a LaTeX user, you can get a copy of the manual in PostScript and Acrobat Reader (PDF) format from ftp.eg.bucknell.edu in pub/mac. The PDF version doesn't display properly if you have the Computer Modern screen fonts installed on your system. (Remove them and restart and all will be well except for a small display problem in the upper left corner of each page). This should only be a problem for Textures users who probably don't need the PDF version anyway.
There is also a HTML version of the manual. Point your browser to
- 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.
You can also learn about current Excalibur versions by visiting the