Re: WANTED: spell for LaTeX

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:58

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russell@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (David Russell) writes:


>   Is there a spell cheking routine out there for LaTeX files, which
>runs on a SUN system, (UNIX), similar to 'spell'. 

I think the usual practice is to pipe the file through "detex" first:

% detex < mybook.tex | spell

The program "detex" is available on many Unix systems,
and elsewhere.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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