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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label spell</title>
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<h3>Spelling checkers for work with TeX</h3>
<p>For Unix, <i>ispell</i> has long the program of choice; it is well
integrated with <i>emacs</i>, and deals with some TeX syntax.
However, it is increasingly challenged by <i>aspell</i>, 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. <i>Aspell</i> appears as an option in most
<i>Linux</i> distributions, but is not available on
CTAN~- see <a href="http://aspell.sourceforge.net/">http://aspell.sourceforge.net/</a> for further
details.
<p>For Windows, there is a good spell checker incorporated into the
WinEDT and 4AllTeX <a href="FAQ-editors.html">shell/editor</a>. The
4AllTeX checker is also available as a separate package,
<i>4spell</i>.
<p>For the Macintosh, <i>Excalibur</i> is the program of choice. It
will run in native mode on both sorts of Macintosh. The distribution
comes with dictionaries for several languages.
<p>The VMS Pascal program <i>spell</i> makes special cases of
some important features of LaTeX syntax.
<p>For MSDOS, there are several programs. <i>Amspell</i> can be
called from within an editor, and <i>jspell</i> is an extended
version of <i>ispell</i>.
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<dt><tt><i>4spell</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/4spell.tar.gz">support/4spell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/4spell.zip">zip</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/4spell/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>amspell</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/amspell.tar.gz">support/amspell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/amspell.zip">zip</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/amspell/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>excalibur</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/support/excalibur/Excalibur-4.0.2.sit.hqx">systems/mac/support/excalibur/Excalibur-4.0.2.sit.hqx</a>
<dt><tt><i>ispell</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ispell/">support/ispell/</a>, but beware of any version with a
number <code>4.x</code> - such versions represent a divergent version of the
source which lacks many useful facilities of the <code>3.x</code> series.
<dt><tt><i>jspell</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/jspell.tar.gz">support/jspell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/jspell.zip">zip</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/jspell/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>VMS spell</i></tt><dd>
<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vmspell.tar.gz">support/vmspell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vmspell.zip">zip</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/vmspell/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>winedt</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/winedt32.exe">systems/win32/winedt/winedt32.exe</a>
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<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=spell">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=spell</a>
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