ConTeXt and spell checkers?
(Happy New Year 2003!) What are my options when I want to spell check my ConTeXt file? I only need American English (or "technical English" or "computer English") and the main idea is to check that I really use the American spelling for all words. I'm mainly using WindowsNT+GNUEmacs (from the TeXLive CD)+TeXLive 7, I also have access to the combination WinNT+WinEdt+TeXLive, but I prefer Emacs. I cannot be creative when writing scripts (=no programming skills), but I can follow a pattern for example when adding things to my .emacs file. And I will be installing all the systems with the English spell checker, so easy installation is not necessary as long as the instructions actually work. If there are free or cheap programs that spellcheck postscript or pdf files, that would work as well - i.e. I just need to check my file at *some* stage of the project, before it is finalized and copied. Regards, Mari Voipio
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:58:44 +0200 (EET) mari.voipio@iki.fi wrote:
What are my options when I want to spell check my ConTeXt file? I only need American English (or "technical English" or "computer English") and the main idea is to check that I really use the American spelling for all words.
ispell is the default in my emacs and it has a tex mode which works well with Context. That is, it skips macros and such.
If there are free or cheap programs that spellcheck postscript or pdf files, that would work as well - i.e. I just need to check my file at *some* stage of the project, before it is finalized and copied.
I've used pdftotext to extract text from pdf and run through a spell checker. Problems: the output text retains hyphenated line endings, and includes special typographical characters which the spell checker doesn't understand. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info@sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/
What are my options when I want to spell check my ConTeXt file? I only need American English (or "technical English" or "computer English") and the main idea is to check that I really use the American spelling for all words.
You might be interested in aspell (http://aspell.net/). - the quality is supposed to be better than ispell - it can be used as a drop-in replacement for ispell - it can be integrated into nearly anything - it is free Vik -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:58, mari.voipio@iki.fi wrote:
(Happy New Year 2003!)
What are my options when I want to spell check my ConTeXt file? I only need American English (or "technical English" or "computer English") and the main idea is to check that I really use the American spelling for all words.
You can spell check the *.tex file using ispell. Very quickly the spell checker can be trained to accept the command keywords in your document, just as it accepts proper names. This is how I spell check. John Culleton Subscribe now to "Self Publisher's Newsletter!" No hassle! Send email to mailto:selfpub@wexfordpress.com.
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