[OS X TeX] spellcheckers

[William Adams]

Matthias said:
(re: Excalibur and cocoAspell)
>They use completely different concepts.
>Excalibur is a standalone application which can open your .tex (or
>whatever) document, correct it and save it again.
>cocoAspell is a kind of "plugin" to the system which can be used by any
>application supporting MacOS X's spellchecking functionality.

<snip>

>As a conclusion I would say that Excalibur is a great app and was extremely
>valuable under MacOS 9 and earlier, but since Apple has finally integrated
>spellchecking into the OS with OS X today cocoAspell is probably the better
>choice.

That's not entirely fair---Excalibur implements the Classic derived
``Word service'' function for spell-checking, and will work within
Classic and Carbon apps which make use of that classic Mac OS API.

Blame Apple for not making that coeval / interchangeable with the
NeXTstep-derived Cocoa implementation.

William

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<x-flowed>On Dienstag, Mai 8, 2001, at 04:57  Uhr, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> Yes, but you can't include .eps files in TeXShop.

what i usually do (and it works quite well) is to save in illustrator as 
EPS and use the distiller to convert it to PDF. this means of course 
that i have to make changes in the original EPS file instead of the PDF.

The problem is in my opinion that either pdflatex or the apple pdf 
viewer class or illustrator/omnigraffle does something wrong with the 
bouding box of the PDF file; at least there obviously is some kind of 
inconsistency between the understanding of the bounding box in these 
three apps.

cheers, martin.

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