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atiq@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Mohammed Atiquzzaman) writes:

] Is there a spelling checker available for documents typed in
] LaTex.  The Unix 'spell' does not understand (I think) LaTex
] commands, and hence produces a long list of errors.  Thanks.

You could try ispell.  From our ispell(local) man page:

          The -t option selects TeX/LaTeX input mode.  TeX/LaTeX mode
          is also automatically selected if an input file has the
          extension ".tex".  In this mode, whenever a backslash ("\")
          is found, ispell will skip to the next whitespace.  Thus,
          for example, given
               \chapter {This is a Ckapter} \cite{SCH86}
          will find "Ckapter" but will not look for SCH.  The -t
          option does not recognize the TeX comment character "%".

Or use the detex command and give the output to spell.  But ispell
is better because you can interactively correct mistakes.
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