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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: M-x spell buffer with TeX files
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 20:36:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 20:36:35 1986
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The easiest thing to do for checking spelling of TeX files is to
get the detex command which I believe should have been on the
TeX distribution tape (thanks to Howard Trickey) and add it to
the spell pipeline (spell is a shell file so this is quite easy.)

Adding it *before* deroff seemed to work better as deroff will remove
\a-little-bit whilst detex will remove \word-to-delimiter more or less
which should happen first. I suspect there are cases where this may
not be ideal in which case someone might want to just make an xspell
or some such which only detex's and leave the other alone and teach
GNU emacs about the new command (I would just copy spell.el to
xspell.el and change the relevant shell command in that file.) Or
maybe it should check an environment variable and automagically do the
right thing, or maybe GNU emacs should check if you are in some sort
of TeX input mode and/or the file ends in .tex and choose which
command seems best, or perhaps 'file' should be taught about TeX files
and that could be used to decide, or maybe we should build an expert
system to see if the content of your paper is even worthwhile to
bother checking the spelling on, or...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University