Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!jtkohl From: jtkohl@quicksilver.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: spelling-checkers for TeX Message-ID: Date: 21 Sep 89 16:33:02 GMT References: <11875@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Organization: /mit/jtkohl/.organization Lines: 27 In-reply-to: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU's message of 21 Sep 89 02:28:53 GMT In article <11875@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: Path: bloom-beacon!usc!apple!agate!shelby!polya!Neon.Stanford.EDU!rokicki From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) Newsgroups: comp.text Date: 21 Sep 89 02:28:53 GMT Sender: USENET News System Lines: 8 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 "%". -- John Kohl or Digital Equipment Corporation/Project Athena (The above opinions are MINE. Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)