[Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release Candidate 9.0rc1

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I have just uploaded the first release candidate for the final version of Alpha. This is Alpha RC1 (version 9.0rc1) for Mac OS X 10.9 or greater. 

See at the end of this message, the main changes contained in this new release. 

If you had previously downloaded another preview release, make sure you replace it entirely by the new one, in particular if you keep a working copy for updates as explained in TN #1: How to update the core ? and TN #3: How to update the AlphaTcl library ?. 

Please, read the release notes which will be displayed the first time you launch Alpha and can be accessed later from the Help menu. 

Here is the URL to download the disk image: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.0rc1/Alpha_9.0rc1.dmg.zip/download (27.64M) 

The MD5 checksum is: b5c3fc7f1267ba3e77421728e78d60e1 
The SHA1 checksum is: 2e5aaed0d5472738b606ea15c00292c8f5ddf25a 

Don't hesitate to post bug reports, even if they concern a missing functionality which still has to be implemented. Bug reports are essential to keep track of all the deficiencies. See Alpha's Bug Tracker. 

Thank you for trying Alpha. 
Cheers, 
Bernard
Changes from previous version

New core command [spellchecker] to implement the system wide spell checking facility.
Implemented services available to other applications. Alpha now provides two services called New Alpha Document With Selection and Open Selected File in Alpha.
New xserv service 'OS X Spell Checker' to access the built-in Cocoa spell checker.
New QA #4: How to enable Alpha Services ?.
New QA #5: How to do spell checking with Alpha ?.
New item Show/Hide Substitutions Panel in the Search menu. It lets you apply user's system-wide substitutions defined in the Keyboard/Shortcuts panel of the OS X System Preferences.
Modified [revert] command to fix a problem with multifile replacements which blocked the application.
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #145: The Include menu has disappeared from HTML mode
Ticket #146: After expansion, Math Modes menu crashes Alpha
The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #133: undo / redo
Ticket #134: strange behavior of the 'undo' command for some actions
Ticket #135: Right-arrow won't go past a dead accent
Ticket #136: with soft wrapping, arrow keys should follow visual lines
Ticket #137: Dynamic menu items are too slow
Ticket #139: Problems with text selection
Ticket #140: 'Standard Templates' function in Electric menu
Ticket #141: Cancel 'Create A New ...' Prefs throws error
Ticket #142: typo in tex environment name ('flushrignt') ?
Ticket #143: Printing causes crash
Ticket #144: AppleEvents fail on High Sierra