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In article <1992Aug21.162554.26904@news.clarkson.edu> russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu writes:
>   Is there a spell cheking routine out there for LaTeX files, which
>runs on a SUN system, (UNIX), similar to 'spell'. The problem is
>that 'spell' has problems when encountering 'TeX' commands. (eg.
>'\put' returns 'ut' as an unknown word, and '\section' returns
>'ction' as unknown.) I would just like a spell checker which does
>not have this problem. Developing a supplimental dictionary with
>all these non-words could be dangerous. What are my options...

I hacked up some code some time ago which I have to clean up before
I release, that extracts words from TeX files like na\"{\i}ve
and turns them into iso8859/1 8-bit characters which could then
be checked with an 8-bit-friendy spelling checker.  It wasn't
fully general code but it worked on my own files at least.  I erred
on the side of safety and just translated constructs I understood.

When I mentioned this to bb once, she suggested that a useful utility
would be one which read 7-bit tex files and turned them into 8-bit
files where possible.

G