Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: detex/ispell/emacs Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 00:28:00 GMT References: Distribution: world,local Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: paul@aqua.ccit.arizona.edu's message of 9 Apr 91 19:53:42 GMT In article paul@aqua.ccit.arizona.edu (Paul Sanchez) writes: >> I recently tried porting the ispell spelling checker to use on TeX >> under emacs. There's a supplemental program called detex, which >> strips out most of the TeX formatting commands. Detex is supplied as >> a lex file along with .h and Makefile. This version runs fine for me >> on BSD4.3, and compiles on the NeXT, but then dies with the message >> "Bus error" when I try to run it. >> >> Has anyone succeeded in getting ispell/detex going? I have ispell running without any problems; no detex though (i was not aware of its existence; I have most of the TeX commands i use incorporated in my ispell.words; given the dictionary's ignorance of technical terms anyway this is not too much overhead. Did someone make ispell run with Webster (or the WriteNowDictionary) as source for buildhash? Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET