This is release 2.6 of Excalibur. 11/5/98

Excalibur is a freeware spelling checker 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, BBEdit, MT NewsWatcher,
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 6.0.5 or higher to run Excalibur.  It will run
on any Macintosh from a Mac Plus on up.

- If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help.

- The "Standard Dictionary" distributed with Excalibur has over
158,000 words.

- British, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian
and Spanish dictionaries are also available.  You can get these from
<ftp://ftp.eg.bucknell.edu//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, 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 2.6:

You can now drag multiple files on Excalibur.  When you do, it will
operate in a slightly different fashion.  It will automatically start
spell checking each file and it will auto save each file when you are
finished with it.

Added Navigation Services support.  You can select more than one file
to spell check.  When you select more than one file, the behavior is
the same as when you drop multiple files onto Excalibur.

Excalibur has a significantly better Standard Dictionary.  The new
dictionary is several times larger than the previous one.  As a
result, Excalibur's suggested application size is now about 2~MB.

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a display bug that appeared when a document was open and you
tried to open another document that was busy.

Fixed the handling of Save As while correcting.

Clicking on the splash screen no longer causes a crash.

Rick Zaccone zaccone@bucknell.edu