Spelling checkers for work with TeX
For Unix, ispell was long the program of choice; it is well
integrated with emacs, and deals with some TeX syntax.
However, it has more-or-less been replaced everywhere, by
aspell, which was designed as a successor, and certainly
performs better on most metrics; there remains some question as to its
performance with (La)TeX sources.
For Windows, there is a good spell checker incorporated into many of
the shell/editor combinations that are available.
The spell checker from the (now defunct) 4AllTeX shell remains
available as a separate package, 4spell.
For the Macintosh, Excalibur is the program of choice. It
will run in native mode on both sorts of Macintosh. The distribution
comes with dictionaries for several languages.
The VMS Pascal program spell makes special cases of
some important features of LaTeX syntax.
For MSDOS, there are several programs. Amspell can be
called from within an editor, and jspell is an extended
version of ispell.
- 4spell
- support/4spell (gzipped tar, browse)
- amspell
- support/amspell (gzipped tar, browse)
- aspell
- Browse support/aspell/ — choose just those language
dictionaries (under subdirectory dict/) that you need.
- excalibur
- systems/mac/support/excalibur/Excalibur-4.0.2.sit.hqx
- ispell
- support/ispell/ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz
- jspell
- support/jspell (gzipped tar, browse)
- VMS spell
-
support/vmspell (gzipped tar, browse)
- winedt
- systems/win32/winedt/
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