Re: WANTED: spell for LaTeX

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From: 754clifton
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:23

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In article <1992Aug21.162554.26904@news.clarkson.edu>, 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'. 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...
> 

Try an archie search for spet (spell tool) this is a nice spelling 
package from a guy in Europe (Norway?). Anyway, it features compressed
dictionaries, is portable across most common machines (I'm sure Sun
included) and has dictionaries for TeX/LaTeX source and others specialty
files.

/Doug
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Douglas Clifton [99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu]

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