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Questions tagged [spelling]

{spelling} is for questions addressing issues related to the application programs that flag words in a document that may be spelled incorrectly.

{spelling} address issues related to the application programs that flag words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. This work is done using a spell checker (or spell check) software. A spell checker is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly. Spell checkers may be stand-alone, capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application.

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texstudio spell checking

I encounter problems with spell checking with my texstudio. I've looked at some of the questions and answers in this website. I followed some of the instructions provided in the answers but still does not solve my problem. I download the latest…
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Checking a huge mathematical document with aspell

(This question was originally posted on stackoverflow, but the audience there recommended to move this post here.) I want to check the spelling in a huge mathematical document written in LaTeX. This document consists of multiple chapters split up…
Meneldur
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Latin abbreviation management

It appears that some abbreviation inherited from Latin, e.g., i.e., have different inter-space prescription in different languages for different reasons (good and bad ones). No space space in English, tiny space in German, a regular space in French.…
Spherical Triangle
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Spell checking package for Texlive

Is there any package for texlive to check spelling and replace the right spelling in an interactive way? I can use command line 'aspell' or 'ispell' checker but these do not modify the .tex file only correct for the instant compilation.
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Dash in labels (Was: Labeling and citations issues with spell checker)

I try to separated my LaTeX files into content files, and macro files. In content files, I minimize the use of macros, trying to restrict these to markup only, e.g., \section, \caption. The benefit is that you can spell check only content files, and…
Yossi Gil
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Have ispell ignore certain LaTeX tags

Using ispell -t on a .tex file generally does a good job of figuring out what is TeX and what isn't but it seems to find misspellings on commands that are generally going to be misspelled, i.e. \includegraphics{myfig.jpg} Gives a typo since myfig…
Hooked
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Which PDF/DVI viewers have spelling error or homonym detectors?

Sometimes it is easy to miss a spelling error in TeX. Which PDF/DVI editors let you a second check? Many allow you to spell check the input field in a form. I want the main document to be checked. And does any reader detect homonyms? As in…
Maesumi
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Comparison of TeXworks editor with others with respect to spell checking

I use TeXworks editor on Windows where the default setting appears to be a) Errors are underlined in red (but TeX code is not recognized and so it is underlined too; and ``comments'' are in red too) this makes for an egg hunt to find the errors. b)…
Maesumi
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How to skip labels and citations when spellchecking

I want to spell-check a rather large article. In this article there are many labels (atleast 50) for theorems, figures etc. which have informal names (usually an acronym of some sort), which trigger the spell-check unnecessarily. I would like to…
Nick L
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Add name with space to personel hunspell dictionary

I am trying to add the name "de Gennes" to my personal dictionary. I tried adding the expression as a new line to my dictionary, but unfortunately this seems not to work as both words get returned as mistakes. I know I could add both words on…
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How can I get Aspell to check accented characters?

I've installed aspell with Homebrew and I've added the italian dictionary. Unfortunately aspell don't check words like "è", "necessità" because they are written in this way: "necessit\`a". How can I solve this problem? I launch aspell with: aspell…
emattiazzi
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A list of spelling errors in multiple .tex files

I do have a large PDF document created based on 10 different .tex files. Im using Mac and I want to spell check these words such a way that I can get list of incorrect words (e.g., by using a shell command, or a tool). How can I do that?
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Formal Writing Style Correction on Latex

Possible Duplicate: How to perform advanced spell checking of latex documents? Microsoft Word has a nifty property of style correction, where it can find phrasal verbs, passive voice and things that usually are not suitable for scientific…
Leon palafox
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Spell checking within function arguments

I am currently writing my resume in texStudio using a template that uses \cvitem. The issue I'm having is the spell check does not check the spelling within the arguments for \cvitem. For example, if I want to add a section called "Topic" and…
BobJoe1803
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Remove hyphenation for all document

I have the following…
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