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>      Most people `detex', then spell.  Then they have two documents, one
>      with correct spellings, and one with the TeX commands.  Neither is
>      really what they want.
>
>   Why not just use the '-t' option to ispell (if you use ispell)?  Not
>   perfect, but pretty good:
>
>	The -t option selects TeX/LaTeX input mode.  In this mode,
>	whenever a backslash ("\") is found, ispell will skip to the
>	next whitespace.  Thus, for example, given
>	     \chapter {This is a Ckapter} \cite{SCH86}
>	will find "Ckapter" but will not look for SCH.  The -t
>	option does not recognize the TeX comment character "%".
>
I had posted a query some time back to which I never got a response.
I happen to use Ispell and the ispell.el function for emacs.

Ispell.el does a nice job of passing the input through detex, and
making the corrections in your working buffer.

The basic question I had was (I'm not a lisp or emacs hacker) -

Has anybody gotten "ispell -t" to work via "ispell.el"?

I have a working version which still passes things through the detex
filter. I'm running GNU 18.54 on a DECstation 3100 Ultrix 3.1.

Of course, then we can debate which works better - detex or "-t",
as they both have different limitations.

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