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From: spencer@heinlein.osc.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Spell Checker for TEX
Keywords: Spell checker TEx
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Date: 20 Sep 89 11:42:47 GMT
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In article <573@tah386.manhattan.ks.us> terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) writes:
>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.  
>

It's this filter:

#! /bin/sh
  if test -f $1.spell
  then sed 's/\\[a-zA-Z]*//g' $1.tex | spell | sort | comm -23 - $1.spell
  else sed 's/\\[a-zA-Z]*//g' $1.tex | spell | more
  if




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