Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!spel From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Latex spellchecker Keywords: Latex Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 16:01:49 GMT References: <792@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 26 In <792@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> shark@cs.uq.oz.au (Greg Norman) writes: >Does anyone out there know of the existence of some sort of spell checker for >LaTeX. I do quite large documents and they are a pain to spellcheck by hand. >-- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Computer Science Department, | shark@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au | >| University of Queensland, Australia.| "BACK OFF MAN ! I'm a scientist !"| > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg, on unix one uses delatex | spell or something similar (look at the tape) on ms-dos one can use timo salmi's tschek11 and add the latex commands from latex.tex into the ascci wordlist. works very well (anybody got a decent (quick) ascii sorter?) One can do same with MicroSpell of MicroEmacs fame (merge the commands with dmerge compress the new file wit cdict) on ms-dos unix and lots of other operating systems. regards, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA) Katatura State Hospital (formerly extel@quagga.ru.ac.za) Private Bag 13215 (Real Soon Now ... el@lisse.NA) Windhoek, Namibia (no FTP yet. [This is Africa :-)-O])