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From: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Spell Checker for TEX
Keywords: Spell checker TEx
Message-ID: <573@tah386.manhattan.ks.us>
Date: 20 Sep 89 00:27:11 GMT
References: <1372@speedy.mcnc.org>
Reply-To: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
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In article <1372@speedy.mcnc.org> kerm@mcnc.org (Cary E. Burnette) writes:
>I was wondering if there are any spell checkers that read TEX
>input and disregard the TEX commands. If not what spellcheckers
>do people use with TEX. I need one for a VMS machine or a PC.

Most TeX users run under UNIX, so they use a filter that eliminates
the TeX commands and then feed that output to either ispell or spell.  
ispell could probably be ported to either VMS or DOS if you were really
determined.  




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Terry Hull 
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