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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: Spell checker for TeX and LaTeX documents.
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Date: 10 Apr 90 00:24:08 GMT
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In article <1990Apr8.025222.27677@contact.uucp> ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng)
writes:

> 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?

The obvious choice (okay, I'm biased) is ispell, which is available from the
osu-cis archives and (I think) from uunet.  Ispell recognizes the ".tex"
suffix and has some primitive detex support built in.  It also comes with
a nice (I'm told) emacs interface.  Make sure you get the two patches;
when you're done with installation, you should have version 2.0.02, May
1987 Beta posting.

	Geoff Kuenning	geoff@la.locus.com	geoff@ITcorp.com