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From: ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.tex
Subject: Re: Spelling Checkers
Keywords: TeX, Spelling Checkers
Message-ID: <00233.AA00233@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US>
Date: 6 Mar 90 13:18:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
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In article 1148daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu, daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu comments that
several of the sites listed in previous message weren't accessible to get
DeTeX or ISPELL.  He also asks about Spelling Checkers for VAX/VMS that work
with TeX.

There is a Spelling Checker for VAX/VMS that works with TeX.  It is freeware.
It is excellant.  I think it is better than ISPELL (or the implementations of
ISPELL that I have seen).  The program is VASSAR SPELL and it is available on 
the DECUS TeX Collection which you can get from the DECUS Library or from your
DECUS LUG.

VASSAR SPELL use the SMG routnes in VMS to give you a very nice (for ascii 
terminals) windows-like screen format.  It does all sorts of neat
things, including intercepting broadcast messages and putting them in
their own window.  It has a large dictionary and allows for private
dictionaries.  People can select to add words to the master dictionary,
but they get put in a provisional dictionary until the system manager
(or whoever has the privs) adds them to the master dictionary.

VASSAR SPELL not only works with TeX and LaTeX, it also works with VMS
RUNOFF and SCRIBE.

The latest release of the DECUS TeX Collection is August 1989 and contains
a very large amount of TeX Material for VAX/VMS, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX.
The DECUS TeX Collection can be obtained from the DECUS Library (reference 
number VS0058) or from your DECUS LUG (Local User Group) (ask for the 
DECUS TeX Collection).  

Outside of the United States, contact your DECUS Office about getting a copy 
of the DECUS TeX Collection

To contact the DECUS Library:

 		The DECUS Program Library
		219 Boston Post Road  BP02
		Marlboro, MA  01752-1850

		Phone: 508 480-3418


Ted Nieland    (513) 427-6355
Control Data Corporation
DECUS TeX Collection Editor
TNIELAND@AAMRL.AF.MIL
DECUS_TEX@NIELAND.DAYTON.OH.US