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.
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How to work with copy editors when the document is in TeX?
I have a big book that is ready for a copy editor. The problem is, my document is not in a single file, and it has lots of custom TeX macros mixed in.
As I understand it, most copy editors will open a ...
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Greek SpellChecking with texmaker
I want to use greek spellechecking with texMaker. They provide a resource for additional dictionaries for multiple languages, but the greek one doesn't seem to work. I downloaded and placed in the ...
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Lyx: share/sync personnal dictionary among computers?
I am using Lyx and would like that the words saved with Add to personal dictionary can be re-used on two different (Ubuntu) computers.
One solution I can think of would be to have my personal ...
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Is there some trick to check for unbalanced parentheses? [duplicate]
Good evening!
I was just about to hand in my master's thesis, when I realized that I had a case of $(...(...)$ in a formula. As a consequence, I would be very interested to find similar instances of ...
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How to exclude a word in latex dictionary [closed]
I just added a spell checker to texmaker and it works really well, except for one thing:
since I'm italian, the right way to say "is" is "è" and not "é", so I would like ...
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Command line based spellcheckers for ConTeXt files on Windows
Note: I'm crossposting from the mailing list and Reddit
I'm currently using ConTeXt on a windows machine. I'd like to incorporate some sort of automated spell-checking in my workflow. I've seen that ...
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Jumping between spelling mistakes
I am looking for a way to jump between misspelled words in TeXworks: in a large document it becomes difficult to keep track of spelling mistakes, specially if many of these are not actually spelling ...
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Spell checking LaTeX documents in Windows
I'm looking for a spell checking software for LaTeX in Windows. I know that such questions have been asked before but more than a decade has passed. Hopefully, there are better solutions out now. ...
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TeXmaker spellchecker is set to use en_UK, but it still accepts en_US spelling
As the title says, I have TeXmaker set to use the en_UK dictionary.
This dictionary was manually copied from the LibreOffice's website (https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/english-...
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Spell checking in Spanish on LyX not working
The spell checking works in English, but not in any other language. In particular I am interested in Spanish. I have LyX 2.3.6.1 in Ubuntu 20.04 configured like this:
If I change "Language" ...
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How can I add a word in overleaf to the spell checker? [closed]
I am writing my thesis with overleaf. The spell checker does not recognize some words. How can I add them ?
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Dictionary for TeXShop
Is there any way to get a spell checker or synonym dictionary like "Thesaurus" for TeXShop? I only know that there is such a built-in dictionary for TeXstudio, but I would like to stay with ...
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TeXstudio German Spellchecking
I've been using LaTeX and TeXstuido 3.1.2 for quite a while but always for English text. For English, my spellchecking etc. works fine, but I just can't figure out how to get German spellchecking to ...
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Detect the same two sentences
In TeXStudio, spelling and grammar checks seem unable to detect the same two sentences written in a paragraph or document. Obviously, popular grammar solutions didn't catch this spelling mistake ...
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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 ...
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