<div dir="auto">So he has TWO articles talking about KEdit....I was not aware of this one, gonna go read now.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Paulo Ney</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 7:02 AM Michael Barr, Prof. <<a href="mailto:barr.michael@mcgill.ca">barr.michael@mcgill.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Correction: Much as I appreciate Paulo's contribution, I have to mention that the actual New Yorker article in which John McPhee describes his use of kedit is:</p>
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1. Re: Can anyone recommend a spell checker for tex files?<br>
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:17:37 -0700<br>
From: Paulo Ney de Souza <<a href="mailto:pauloney@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pauloney@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: "Michael Barr, Prof." <<a href="mailto:barr.michael@mcgill.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">barr.michael@mcgill.ca</a>><br>
Cc: James Diamond <<a href="mailto:jim.diamond@acadiau.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jim.diamond@acadiau.ca</a>>, TeXhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">texhax@tug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a spell checker for tex files?<br>
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Ahhh ... KEdit, the DOS clone of the venerated XEdit that worked on VM/CMS.<br>
There are many people that swears by it and many that swear at it ... maybe<br>
someone should write a review-comparison of it and Emacs!<br>
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The article by John McPhee is "Draft No. 4":<br>
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<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4</a><br>
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a very interesting piece of reading ...and so it is this article on him at<br>
NYT:<br>
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html</a><br>
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I heard you can still buy KEdit:<br>
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<a href="https://www.kedit.com/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.kedit.com/index.html</a><br>
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but it is probably not worth it ...<br>
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We are trying to make OpenDetex work in Windows:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex</a><br>
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so soon that coupled with Aspell (which runs fine on Windows) will give you<br>
an alternate path that will allow you to easily keep a private word-list.<br>
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Paulo Ney<br>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:50 PM Michael Barr, Prof. <<a href="mailto:barr.michael@mcgill.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">barr.michael@mcgill.ca</a>><br>
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> Thanks all. It took longer than I wanted but the suggestion from Uwe<br>
> Ziegenhagen did the job. I finally downloaded the open office dictionary.<br>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to add additional words that I use all the<br>
> time, but it worked.<br>
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> I actually have MS-Office on my computer (thanks to my computer centre<br>
> which makes Office 365 the only email interface) but simply could not find<br>
> their dictionaries.<br>
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> As for what editor I use, I have been using it and its many upgrades for<br>
> 35 years and have tuned it highly to make it easy to do tex (e.g. the F-10<br>
> key lays down a pair of dollar signs and leaves the cursor between them;<br>
> F-11 and F-12 do the same for {} and () and there are other shortcuts) and<br>
> I am not about to change. What it doesn't have is an integrated<br>
> spell-checker. I used to have a very good one but it was a 16 bit program<br>
> that doesn't run under later Windows. The editor is called Kedit. John<br>
> McPhee once wrote a New Yorker essay about his use of it.<br>
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> Anyway thanks for the help. It might amuse you to know that I went<br>
> through an entire 20+ page paper (at the insistence of a coauthor) and<br>
> didn't find a single actual misspelling.<br>
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> Michael<br>
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> *From:* Paulo Ney de Souza <<a href="mailto:pauloney@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pauloney@gmail.com</a>><br>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 14, 2019 4:30:25 PM<br>
> *To:* James Diamond <<a href="mailto:jim.diamond@acadiau.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jim.diamond@acadiau.ca</a>><br>
> *Cc:* Michael Barr, Prof. <<a href="mailto:barr.michael@mcgill.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">barr.michael@mcgill.ca</a>>; TeXhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">texhax@tug.org</a><br>
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> *Subject:* Re: Can anyone recommend a spell checker for tex files?<br>
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> The OP states that he uses a third-party editor. The tricky part here is<br>
> to get the TeX codes and commands cleared out of the file to be<br>
> spelled...not the speller itself since there are tons of them. This should<br>
> be the job of this third party editor or of TeXshop, luatex or even<br>
> detex...but my question is -- what is the application you used to run for<br>
> that? I am not aware of any under MS-Windows.<br>
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> Paulo Ney<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 1:10 PM James Diamond via texhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">texhax@tug.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 17:11 (+0000), Michael Barr, Prof. wrote:<br>
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> > All the answers I find on the web either require Luatex or that you be<br>
> running under some version of Unix. I use MS-windows and a third party<br>
> editor. I used to have a very good one, but it is 16 bit and all recent<br>
> versions of Win won't run it.<br>
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> Michael,<br>
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> I never use MS-windows, but aside from the texworks suggestion, you<br>
> could probably get a spell checker running under emacs, should that<br>
> appeal.<br>
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> Jim<br>
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