scott wrote:
>>> Just copy&paste from the pdf into Word and do the spell check from 
>>> there.
>>
>> Doesn't work. The ligatures get all screwed up.
>>
>> Besides, it's fairly labour-intensive.
> 
> OK so it messes up the ligatures and hyphens, but the above is a start!

True. But it could only be for a final, labour-intensive pass.

> But for the long term solution, definitely find a spell checker that 
> works in Latex.

Heh. Maybe I should *write* one? ;-)

> Are there not any IDEs specifically for Latex that will 
> flag up spelling errors in-place?

Yes: Vim, Ecams, LyX, and any mannar of other Unix-based tools. :-P

Actually, it appears that Aspell can do it, and is easily installable on 
Windows. But I'll have to do that at home; anything I install at work 
has to be recorded, and it already looks suspecious as hell that I've 
installed stuff like IrfanView, MiKTeX, Firefox, Thunderbird, Ghostscript...

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