LUSGR@LEHICDC1.BITNET (Steve Roseman) (09/15/87)
Is there a good Spelling Checker/Corrector program available? DECUS or Public Domain preferred. It will be used mainly with SCRIBE input files. Thanks, Steve Roseman Lehigh University lusgr@lehicdc1
jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan) (09/16/87)
In article <8709142126.AA03270@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> LUSGR@LEHICDC1.BITNET (Steve Roseman) writes: >Is there a good Spelling Checker/Corrector program available? DECUS or >Public Domain preferred. It will be used mainly with SCRIBE input files. Get the Fall 84 DECUS VAX SIG Symposium tape (orderable from the DECUS library ifyou can't get it from the distribution tree; contact your local LUG for info on the distribution tree; to find a LUG, contact the DECUS office) and look in the directory [vax84c.vassar.spell] . We use this spell check/corrector extensively. It is fast, allows each user to maintain a private dictionary, maintains a secondary dictionary of "words which users say are correct but which haven't been approved yet", and has more goodies. If you run it on a file with a .mss extension it will ignore imbedded Scribe commands (.RNO => ignore runoff commands; .TEX => ignore TeX commands). There are a few glitches in the dictionary; for instance, it thinks that "supercede" is correct (Webster's Ninth agrees, but no one else I've checked does), but on the whole we're very pleased with it.