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Adding my two cents on the topic of spelling checkers. Under VMS the best 
spelling checker is by Spell program from Vassar. This program understands
the TeX syntax AND will provide correct spelling guesses for the words 
mis-spelled. This program is available through the Decus tape library and
is written is pascal.

Under Unix, an excellent spelling checker is ispell. The ispell utility was
distributed as part of the CMU Andrew System (or at least that is where I 
discovered it). This program can work stand alone or from within emacs. The
program will not pick up the Tex commands as spelling errors and will provide
correction guesses for the mis-spelled word. I have found that using ispell
inside of emacs makes for an excellent Tex development environment.

The ispell program was not written specifically for TeX but rather for the
Andrew system. However the Andrew system uses the backslash character "\"
to distinguish special andrew formatting commands so ispell ignores words
starting with a backslash. 

Since this group is concerned with text processing many of you may find the
andrew system interesting. As part of the system you get a WYSIWYG document
editor, a spreadsheet (or table builder), a simplistic equation writer, and
a simple draw program. The WYSIWYG editor allows you to easily include any of
the above in a document. For simple non-structured documents it is an excellent
system. Best of all is that it is free. It is part of the contrib library 
on the x11 R4 distribution.For journal articles or other text where 
pre-defined styles exist I still prefer TeX.

If there is interest I can check into posting the ispell package to the
clarkson tex archive.

Jack Suess