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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spell checker recommendations, please!
Summary: Ispell
Keywords: spell check help
Message-ID: <15698@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 02:43:12 GMT
References: <4329@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <4329@hubcap.UUCP> robert@hubcap.UUCP (Robert Reynolds) writes:
>I'm using AmigaTeX and my favorite editor-of-the-month for document
>production.  What I'm missing is a good spelling checker, and I'd
>appreciate some recommendations.  Ideally, it would have a huge
>dictionary, be fast, have a nice interface that also allows interactive
>document correction, understand TeX and LaTeX (enough not to flag
>commands as misspelled words), and be free.  Yeah, that's all.
>So, what's really available?  Thanks for the help!

Ispell.  It's free.  It understands TeX.  It has a fair sized (and user
extensible) dictionary.  It allows an additional user dictionary, and
lets you interactively make corrections (similar to the way the
wordperfect spelling checker operates).  And it's pretty fast, since
it loads the dictionary and operates in ram.

Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got it.  I ftp'ed  it from
somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where.  Does anybody
remember where that was?  The guy who ported it sold his amiga, so
Ispell needs a new custodian.  It does need a little work, but it's
usable as is.

You need at least a meg (maybe more) and will probably want a hard disk
to use Ispell.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP