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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Spell checker recommendations, please!
Keywords: spell check help
Message-ID: <6916@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Feb 89 06:20:46 GMT
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Reply-To: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
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> >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
>
> Ispell.  It's free.  It understands TeX.  It has a fair sized (and user
> extensible) dictionary.  It allows an additional user dictionary, and

I hacked ISpell to add my own favorite feature---document specific words.
Ever write a paper and use the acronym BLUT (or some such) so you want
that document to pass it, but not to add it to your private dictionary?
Simple.  Just put a line something like

      ispell'local'words BLUT any.other.words.that.are.okay

somewhere in the file (usually in some comment or something) and ISpell
will pass it.  Better yet, a command line option will create such a list
for you of all words you `pass for the rest of the document, but don't
add to the dictionary' so you can spell-check it once, insert those
lines, and every further time you spell-check, no complaints.

It's available from Radical Eye Radio BBS (415) 32-RADIO.  Or, if you
can't do that, send me your name and address (no disks or SASE's, please)
and I'll mail it to you . . .

-tom