rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (09/21/89)
Most people `detex', then spell. Then they have two documents, one with correct spellings, and one with the TeX commands. Neither is really what they want. With unretex, from labrea.stanford.edu:pub, you can merge these two documents together automatically. -tom
grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (09/21/89)
I've been using the VorTeX emacs package with a great degree of success. If you use Gnuemacs and TeX, this is the best combination. VorTeX lets you establish private dictionaries, either per-user, per-paper or global. When you spell check, it acts much like ispell, however, it also allows you to query the dict. to find pre/suf/in-fix spellings. I belive that the Gnuemacs portion of the package is publicly available, while the the remainder ( a TeX previewer and some other stuff ) costs you about $100. None the less, the macros by themselves are very useful. I picked them up on one of the Bezerkeley hosts -- perhaps Pehong Chen (phc@renior.berkeley.edu), the author, might respond with more information. Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
jtkohl@quicksilver.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) (09/21/89)
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Most people `detex', then spell. Then they have two documents, one
with correct spellings, and one with the TeX commands. Neither is
really what they want.
Why not just use the '-t' option to ispell (if you use ispell)? Not
perfect, but pretty good:
The -t option selects TeX/LaTeX input mode. In this mode,
whenever a backslash ("\") is found, ispell will skip to the
next whitespace. Thus, for example, given
\chapter {This is a Ckapter} \cite{SCH86}
will find "Ckapter" but will not look for SCH. The -t
option does not recognize the TeX comment character "%".
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> or <jtkohl@Kolvir.Brookline.MA.US>
Digital Equipment Corporation/Project Athena
(The above opinions are MINE. Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)magill@operations.upenn.edu (PENNnet Oper/Planning) (09/24/89)
> Most people `detex', then spell. Then they have two documents, one > with correct spellings, and one with the TeX commands. Neither is > really what they want. > > Why not just use the '-t' option to ispell (if you use ispell)? Not > perfect, but pretty good: > > The -t option selects TeX/LaTeX input mode. In this mode, > whenever a backslash ("\") is found, ispell will skip to the > next whitespace. Thus, for example, given > \chapter {This is a Ckapter} \cite{SCH86} > will find "Ckapter" but will not look for SCH. The -t > option does not recognize the TeX comment character "%". > I had posted a query some time back to which I never got a response. I happen to use Ispell and the ispell.el function for emacs. Ispell.el does a nice job of passing the input through detex, and making the corrections in your working buffer. The basic question I had was (I'm not a lisp or emacs hacker) - Has anybody gotten "ispell -t" to work via "ispell.el"? I have a working version which still passes things through the detex filter. I'm running GNU 18.54 on a DECstation 3100 Ultrix 3.1. Of course, then we can debate which works better - detex or "-t", as they both have different limitations. -- William H. Magill Manager, PENNnet Operations Planning Data Communications and Computing Services (DCCS) University of Pennsylvania Internet: magill@dccs.upenn.edu magill@eniac.seas.upenn.edu magill@upenn.edu