ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng) (04/08/90)
Is there a freely redistributable program (preferably with source code) that will spellcheck a .tex document and not tag all the \commands as mistakes? If so, where can I find it? Ben -- Ben Eng | ben@contact.uucp _or_ ben@ziebmef.mef.org 150 Beverley St. Apt #1L | Bix: jetpen ^^^down for repair? Toronto, Ontario M5T 1Y6 | UofT Engineering Science: engb@ecf.toronto.edu _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_| Phone: (416)-979-7885, (416)-979-8761
"Arnold G. Gill" <GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (04/08/90)
There is such a beast that runs under VAX/VMS, simply called SPELL. It works very well. However, I don't know where you can get it from - I `liberated' our copy from UMass.
langer@aerospace.aero.org (John V. Langer) (04/09/90)
> Is there a freely redistributable program (preferably with source > code) that will spellcheck a .tex document and not tag all the > \commands as mistakes? If so, where can I find it? There is a program called "detex" that removes TeX/LaTeX contstructs from a file. You can use this program as a preprocessor to your favorite spell-checking program. E.g. on a Unix system you might type detex foo.tex | spell
graaf@unc.cs.unc.edu (Kees de Graaf) (04/09/90)
>There is a program called "detex" that removes TeX/LaTeX contstructs >from a file. You can use this program as a preprocessor to your >favorite spell-checking program. E.g. on a Unix system you might ... etc.. Be aware of the fact that Detex contains some bugs, though. Among other things, it screws-up words containing the \- hyphenation mark.
geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) (04/10/90)
In article <1990Apr8.025222.27677@contact.uucp> ben@contact.uucp (Ben Eng) writes: > Is there a freely redistributable program (preferably with source > code) that will spellcheck a .tex document and not tag all the > \commands as mistakes? If so, where can I find it? The obvious choice (okay, I'm biased) is ispell, which is available from the osu-cis archives and (I think) from uunet. Ispell recognizes the ".tex" suffix and has some primitive detex support built in. It also comes with a nice (I'm told) emacs interface. Make sure you get the two patches; when you're done with installation, you should have version 2.0.02, May 1987 Beta posting. Geoff Kuenning geoff@la.locus.com geoff@ITcorp.com