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Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?

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From: Michael Sanders
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:41
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In article <samh.726198770@zen> samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham) writes:
>From: samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham)
>Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
>Date: 5 Jan 93 01:52:50 GMT

>In <1993Jan2.040345.1500@midway.uchicago.edu> hsue@ellis.uchicago.edu (yung chang  hsueh) writes:

>>I have just installed emTeX on my PC and it works fine.  I 'd like to thank 
>>everyone who replied to my previous post.  Now I need a spell-checker for 
>>my PC which runs on MS-DOS.  Could someone have any suggestion as to
>>what spell-checker I should use and where I could get them.

>I use amSpell version 2.03 in amspel20.zip (by A. Merkens),
>available on simtel.  It's free.  I don't know how it compares to
>Microspell (which, I understand, is not free).

One feature of amspell which may be liked or disliked is that it
will not check files \input or \include ed. Those must be checked
separately. detex does strip such files for spell-checking.

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Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
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