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-% $Id: faq-support.tex,v 1.8 2012/12/07 19:34:33 rf10 Exp rf10 $
+% $Id: faq-support.tex,v 1.9 2014/01/28 18:17:36 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Support Packages for \TeX{}}
@@ -56,28 +56,37 @@ A Unix port of the program (\ProgName{xtexcad}) has been made.
\Question[Q-spell]{Spelling checkers for work with \TeX{}}
-Most approaches to the problem (of checking your spelling) are
-designed to work with a plain text file; in our case, this is \alltex{}
+`Traditional' approaches to the problem (of checking your spelling) were
+designed to work with a plain text file; in our case, we have an \alltex{}
source. For the user, this is a simple-to-understand way to do the
job; but for the spell-checker programmer, it requires heuristic (and
hence fallible) analysis of \alltex{} macros and so on. The
alternative, of viewing the text \emph{after} \alltex{} has processed
the results, is covered below.
+The user of an \Qref*{shell/editor}{Q-editors} will usually find it
+embeds a spelling checker. For command-line use, there are several
+choices, depending on the system you're using.
+
For Unix, \ProgName{ispell} was long the program of choice; it is well
integrated with \ProgName{emacs}, and deals with some \TeX{} syntax.
However, it has more-or-less been replaced everywhere, by
\ProgName{aspell}, which was designed as a successor, and certainly
performs better on most metrics; there remains some question as to its
-performance with \AllTeX{} sources.
-
-For Windows, there is a good spell checker incorporated into many of
-the \Qref*{shell/editor}{Q-editors} combinations that are available.
-The spell checker from the (now defunct) 4All\TeX{} shell remains
-available as a separate package, \ProgName{4spell}.
+performance with \AllTeX{} sources. The most recent offering (which
+is widely used in other open-source software projects) is
+\begin{hyperversion}
+ \href{http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/}{\ProgName{Hunspell}}.
+\end{hyperversion}
+\begin{flatversion}
+ Hunspell~(see \URL{http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/}).
+\end{flatversion}
+\ProgName{Hunspell} is available for other architectures, too; a web
+search shows versions available for Windows, at least.
For the Macintosh, \ProgName{Excalibur} has long been used; its
distribution comes with dictionaries for several languages.
+\ProgName{Hunspell} (see above) is actually part of OS X from version 10.6.
The \acro{VMS} Pascal program \ProgName{spell} makes special cases of
some important features of \LaTeX{} syntax.
@@ -115,7 +124,7 @@ duly highlighted.)
\CTANref{vmspell}
\item[winedt]\CTANref{winedt}
\end{ctanrefs}
-\LastEdit{2013-02-21}
+\LastEdit{2013-10-02}
\Question[Q-wordcount]{How many words have you written?}