This is release 2.3.1 of Excalibur. 11/17/96

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.

Download the "no-dict" version if you don't want yet another copy of
the Standard Dictionary.  The dictionary hasn't changed.

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.

There is also a HTML version of the manual.  Point your browser to

http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~zaccone/Excalibur-manual/Excalibur-manual.html

- 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
Excalibur home page:

http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~excalibr/excalibur.html

Version 2.3.1 new features:

- Added some conformance to Apple's Grayscale Appearance.

- If you ask Excalibur to remember which dictionaries are currently
active, it checks to see if the file or an alias to it is in its
folder.  If not, it will remind you that it won't be able to find the
dictionary the next time you launch the program.

Bugs fixed:

- Suggestions are much faster.

- Fixed a bug that caused Excalibur to squeeze blanks out of words in
the Change To: box.

- Fix a problem with Excalibur not being able to recognize characters
in the extended character set on systems that use a non Roman script.

Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bucknell.edu