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From: langer@aerospace.aero.org (John V. Langer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Spell checker for TeX and LaTeX documents.
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Date: 8 Apr 90 17:06:30 GMT
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> Is there a freely redistributable program (preferably with source
> code) that will spellcheck a .tex document and not tag all the
> \commands as mistakes?  If so, where can I find it?

There is a program called "detex" that removes TeX/LaTeX contstructs
from a file.  You can use this program as a preprocessor to your
favorite spell-checking program.  E.g. on a Unix system you might
type

      detex foo.tex | spell