[1294] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Want "detex"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sat Sep 22 15:34:26 1990
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 15:34:00 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: raymie@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, gsipbbin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Raymie Stata's message of Sat, 22 Sep 90 00:26:44 EDT,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: raymie@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 00:26:44 EDT
I've got a program called detex (freebie by D. Trinkle, Purdue) which
strips out (most of) the TeX junk from a file so it goes thru spell
nicer. (The src is under 30K and so is the vax binary.) Even has man
page. Can you put this in your locker? (Feel free to poke around
~raymie/src/detex/* for more info.)
In general, I've found that ispell is a much nicer program to than just
plain spell, and "ispell -t" will automatically strip out tex'ism while
it's doing the spell-checking, but still does the right thing when it is
rewriting your file back to disk with the spelling corrections. I'm not
quite convinced that the program will get that much use for that reason.
- Ted
