robert@hubcap.UUCP (Robert Reynolds) (02/07/89)
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! -- Robert Reynolds uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!robert CS Dept, Clemson Univ. ARPA: ROBERT@TECNET-CLEMSON.ARPA phone: (803) 656-5884 inet: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) (02/09/89)
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
rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (02/16/89)
> >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