Re: Spell checking a Lout document?

Daren Scot Wilson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If I didn't have to run off for the day, I'd be trying ViewPDF right 
now.  It looks excellent.  Will do so this evening...




On 04/17/2012 04:17 AM, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> I don't know of any nice way to do this directly with lout files (and
> I've looked and I've tried!). Lout has no BNF and is a nightmare to
> parse.
>
> The solution I've now switched to is to use my own ViewPDF program. This
> is just a very simple PDF viewer but it highlights spelling mistakes and
> a couple of other possible problems (e.g., double words). It is free and
> open source and easy to build on Linux once you have installed all the
> -dev libraries it needs:
> http://www.qtrac.eu/viewpdf.html
> (I'd be interested to know how you get on with it.)
>
> BTW At the moment if you add words to your own list (words.lst) they are
> handled case-insensitively.
>


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