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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> was long the program of choice; it is well
integrated with <i>emacs</i>, and deals with some TeX syntax.
However, it has more-or-less been replaced everywhere, 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.
<p/>For Windows, there is a good spell checker incorporated into many of
the <a href="FAQ-editors.html">shell/editor</a> combinations that are available.
The spell checker from the (now defunct) 4AllTeX shell remains
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.zip">support/4spell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/4spell.tar.gz">gzipped tar</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.zip">support/amspell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/amspell.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/amspell/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>aspell</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/aspell/">support/aspell/</a> &mdash; choose just those language
  dictionaries (under subdirectory <i>dict/</i>) that you need.
<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><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ispell/ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz">support/ispell/ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz</a>
<dt><tt><i>jspell</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/jspell.zip">support/jspell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/jspell.tar.gz">gzipped tar</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.zip">support/vmspell</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/vmspell.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/vmspell/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>winedt</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/">systems/win32/winedt/</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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