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- From: mgh3@po.cwru.edu (mike hurley)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: TeX spell checker
- Followup-To: comp.text.tex
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 14:37:12 GMT
- Organization: case western reserve u
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- References: <01GT4P0O523MB61NTA@cebaf.gov>
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- In article <01GT4P0O523MB61NTA@cebaf.gov>, CBS%CEBAFVAX.BITNET@SHSU.edu
- wrote:
- >
- > This posting concerns finding a TeX spell checker to be used on documents
- > created by Textures Lightening on the Macintosh IIci.
- >
- > Running the files through the Word v5.0 spell checker is an option, but all
- > backslash commands would be inconveniently highlighted. This option is
- > terribly time consuming and exhausting just to think about it.
- >
- > Anyway, what does exist out there? Please state whether it is public domain
- > (and how to get it) or where to get it and how much it costs.
- >
- > Thank you so much.
- >
- > cbs@cebaf.gov
-
- there is a free LaTeX spell-checker for the mac called Excalibur; the
- following is quoted from its release announcement of a few months back,
- so some of the exact file paths below may have changed.
-
- You can get Excalibur 1.2 from the following ftp sites:
-
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] in info-mac/app/excalibur-12.hqx
- sol.cs.bucknell.edu [134.82.1.8] in pub/mac/Excalibur-12-sea.hqx
- mac.archive.umich.edu [141.211.182.23] in mac/misc/tex/excalibur1.2.sit.hqx
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-
- mike hurley mgh3@po.cwru.edu
- dept of mathematics
- case western reserve univ. 44106-7058
-