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- From: gmaltby@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Gavin Maltby)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:34:11 GMT
- Organization: Uni Natal
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- In article <1993Jan5.040844.15326@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely) writes:
- >From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
- >Subject: Re: Infor Wanted: Spell-Checker for emTeX?
- >Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:08:44 GMT
-
- >In article <samh.726198770@zen> samh@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Sam Huxham) writes:
- >>In <1993Jan2.040345.1500@midway.uchicago.edu> hsue@ellis.uchicago.edu (yung chang hsueh) writes:
- >>
- >>> .... Could someone have any suggestion as to
- >>>what spell-checker I should use and where I could get them.
- >>
- >>I use amSpell version 2.03 in amspel20.zip (by A. Merkens),
- >>available on simtel. It's free. I don't know how it compares to
- >>Microspell (which, I understand, is not free).
- >>
- >>--Sam
-
- >A repeat of a previous post I made a while back (in essence): MicroSpell is
- >THE spellchecker for TeX (I cringe when I have to use ispell on UNIX -
- >spellchecking is the one thing that is really better on my slow (386SX) DOS
- >machine at home). It is faster on a slow DOS machine than ispell is on a
- >fast UNIX machine. And running ispell or its look-a-likes (I include
- >amSpell here, being a bit loose in usage) on a slow DOS machine is even
- >worse. Yes - you will have to pay for MicroSpell, but you are supporting an
- >individual who (I imagine - I have never met the author, only spoken on the
- >phone when ordering) is deserving of your support. Spend a few $$ on a good
- >speller, and steal somebody else's program - preferably MicroSoft or Lotus
- >;-} (I deny ever typing that...)
-
- >Seriously, MicroSpell has lots of advantages - it is easily configurable,
- >you can add to the supplemental dictionary either by hand or on the fly (as
- >you check your documents) - again easily, you can look up words with
- >wildcards, and of course, it understands TeX - eg it even understands that \'e
- >represents the ASCII 130 character, and so on. Now if only there was a UNIX
- >version...
-
- >-rags
-
- amspell does most of that, too. I don't think it is as TeX-aware as
- you say Microspell is, but it is a close second.
-
- Cheers
-
- Gavin
-