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I'm trying to get ispell to work properly with GNU Emacs and having
problems. I'm particularly interested in latex documents.

1. The version of ispell.el that I've got was last modified by Ray
Moody on March 21, 1991. It has the latex-mode-hook stuff in it. It
sets the args up to be -lwn. The version of detex is 4.1, last changed
on February, 2, 1986. It only supports -iw, not -lwn. I gather that I
have a version mismatch. Is there a newer version of detex around or
is something else wrong?

2. The latex-mode-hook is not getting set up properly. The first time
ispell is run, the hooks are undefined, so ispell-filter-hook gets set
to the default (deroff). After that, if I enter M-x latex-mode,
latex-mode-hook is set, so ispell-filter-hook gets set up properly to
detex. Can someone recommend a better way to do that? It's kind of
useless right now.

3. When the hooks are all finally happy, M-x ispell-buffer dies with
the following message:

Can't find Sorry: document is too large in original text -- Any key to continue

The document is not that large, only 30 pages or so. When it was
ignoring detex, this problem didn't occur. Is the problem with detex,
or is it a combination of detex, Emacs, or ispell, or...?

4. I tried to run ispell 4.1 on a DECstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.1.
I'm not sure if it was built with the fixes. Anyway, M-x ispell-buffer
resulted in emacs hanging regularly, and lots of cycles were being
gobbled up (whether by ispell or emacs, I'm not sure). Is anyone
successfully using ispell on that platform?

Finally, can someone point out what the latest versions of detex and
ispell are, and where I can get them from?

Please reply by email. I will summarize upon request.

Thanks, very much.


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