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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Spellchecking LaTeX files in emacs
Keywords: Spellchecking LaTeX files in emacs
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.085652.2731@ITcorp.com>
Date: 16 Feb 91 08:56:52 GMT
References: <1991Feb10.015245.29408@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corporation, Manhattan Beach, CA
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In article <1991Feb10.015245.29408@athena.mit.edu> lastole@athena.mit.edu
(Lars A Stole) writes:

> I currently use emacs to write my LaTeX files.  In the past (when I used
> a VAXstation3100) I used ispell (a program on MIT's athena system) to
> spellcheck my latex files, using "-t" as an option so that commands
> beginning with a backslash would be ignored.  Does such a program exist
> on the NeXT?  I am currently using "spell" which is on the NeXT machine
> to do my spell checking, but there doesn't seem to be a simple option to
> ignore TeX commands as in ispell.  Is there a simple way get around this?

Ispell works just fine on the NeXT.  In fact, I maintain ispell on a
NeXT, using emacs as my editor.  Ispell sources are available via ftp
from uunet.uu.net, among other places.  Be certain that "ispell -v"
reports "Ispell 2.0.02, May 1987 Beta Posting" so that you have the
most up-to-date copy.  Also keep an eye on comp.sources.* for a new
version of ispell, to be released someday when I have time to get the
last details of the posting arranged (and when I figure out what to do
about the cosmetic bug I am working on in my other Stuart window.
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff