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From: edgar@gem.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Spell Checker for TEX
Keywords: Spell checker TEx
Message-ID: <180@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 89 11:54:23 GMT
References: <1372@speedy.mcnc.org> <573@tah386.manhattan.ks.us> <320@oscsuna.osc.edu>
Reply-To: edgar@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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In article <320@oscsuna.osc.edu] spencer@heinlein.UUCP (Stephen N. Spencer) writes:
]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
....
]
]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

Is there something that will also throw out the mathematical
formulas?  You know the things inside  $...$  and $$...$$ ?
I don't really want to sent them through the spell-checker.
There are hboxes inside the math, and math inside that ...
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