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From: cerbone@mist.cs.orst.edu (cerbone giuseppe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: SUMMARY -- Spell Checkers
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Date: 3 Mar 90 17:41:57 GMT
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To whom it might be interested in.

This is a summary of the answers I received to my quest for a spell
checker. I assume no responsability on availabity or correctness
of the software.
This message is a service to the group and an acknowledgment of its
usefulness.
At the same time it is also intended as a "thank you note" to all
people that have taken their time to answer my quest.

Software	ftp-address		Notes	
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detex	j.cc.purdue.edu 		Takes a .tex file and
	uunet.uu.net			eliminates all tex commands
	haunama.staford.edu

ispell	tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/ispell/*
					A general purpose spell
					checker that "knows" about LATEX.
					Works in combination with Emacs.
					A file ispell.el is also available.

Routine at the end of this message
					It make some mistakes because
it does not recognize all Latex commands and parameters but it is a
clever "quick and dirty" solution to the problem. I have run it and
the mistakes it makes do not seem to create a problem. You just ignore them.

Acknowledgments:
---------------
Software   Info-from		    Author of the package
-----------------------------------------------------
detex	   Peter Flur 		Kamal Al Yah-ya 
	   ghe@physics.orst.edu
	   stefan@svax.cs.cornell.edu
	   Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM	

ispell	   root@cis.ohio-state.edu

routine    Martin B Maechler	Charlie Geyer



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The Following shell-script is from our local TeX-"guru", Charlie Geyer:
(copy it to your local ~/bin  ,make it executable ('chmod +x <file>)
and use it!
--- cut here --
#! /bin/sh
if test $1 = '-b'
then
  shift
  B='-b'
else
  B=''
fi
if test -f $1.spell
then  sed 's/\\[a-zA-Z]*//g' $1.tex | spell $B | sort | comm -23 - $1.spell
else sed 's/\\[a-zA-Z]*//g' $1.tex | spell $B | more
fi
--- cut ----

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