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- From: palais@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
- Subject: Re: TeX spell checker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.152140.5960@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- Organization: Brandeis University
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:21:40 GMT
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- >> This posting concerns finding a TeX spell checker to be used on documents
- >> created by Textures Lightening...
- >> 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.
- >> 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
-
- I've been using Excalibur with Textures 1.5 for about a month now, and it
- works beautifully for me---I highly recommend it. The only "problem" with
- it is that it is necessary to close the file in Textures before opening it
- with Excalibur to spell-check, but this is a minor inconvenience. By the
- way, it is apparently designed for LaTeX, but works perfectly with plain
- TeX files. I hope that Blue Sky will make arrangements with the author to
- let them integrate it into Textures.
- R. Palais
-