texhax Digest, Vol 2019, Issue 133

Thu Aug 15 16:10:03 CEST 2019

So he has TWO articles talking about KEdit....I was not aware of this one,
gonna go read now.

Paulo Ney

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 7:02 AM Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael at mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> 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:
>
> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure.
>
>
> Michael
> <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure>
> Structure | The New Yorker
> <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure>
> www.newyorker.com
> The approach to structure in factual writing is like returning from a
> grocery store with materials you intend to cook for dinner. You set them
> out on the kitchen counter, and what’s there is ...
>
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>    1. Re: Can anyone recommend a spell checker for tex files?
>       (Paulo Ney de Souza)
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> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:17:37 -0700
> From: Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
> To: "Michael Barr, Prof." <barr.michael at mcgill.ca>
> Cc: James Diamond <jim.diamond at acadiau.ca>, TeXhax <texhax at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a spell checker for tex files?
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> Ahhh ... KEdit, the DOS clone of the venerated XEdit that worked on VM/CMS.
> There are many people that swears by it and many that swear at it ... maybe
> someone should write a review-comparison of it and Emacs!
>
> The article by John McPhee is "Draft No. 4":
>
>     https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4
>
> a very interesting piece of reading ...and so it is this article on him at
> NYT:
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html
>
> I heard you can still buy KEdit:
>
>     https://www.kedit.com/index.html
>
> but it is probably not worth it ...
>
> We are trying to make OpenDetex work in Windows:
>
>     https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex
>
> so soon that coupled with Aspell (which runs fine on Windows) will give you
> an alternate path that will allow you to easily keep a private word-list.
>
> Paulo Ney
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:50 PM Michael Barr, Prof. <
> barr.michael at mcgill.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks all.  It took longer than I wanted but the suggestion from Uwe
> > Ziegenhagen did the job.  I finally downloaded the open office
> dictionary.
> > There doesn't seem to be a way to add additional words that I use all the
> > time, but it worked.
> >
> >
> > I actually have MS-Office on my computer (thanks to my computer centre
> > which makes Office 365 the only email interface) but simply could not
> find
> > their dictionaries.
> >
> >
> > As for what editor I use, I have been using it and its many upgrades for
> > 35 years and have tuned it highly to make it easy to do tex (e.g. the
> F-10
> > key lays down a pair of dollar signs and leaves the cursor between them;
> > F-11 and F-12 do the same for {} and () and there are other shortcuts)
> and
> > I am not about to change.  What it doesn't have is an integrated
> > spell-checker.  I used to have a very good one but it was a 16 bit
> program
> > that doesn't run under later Windows.  The editor is called Kedit.  John
> > McPhee once wrote a New Yorker essay about his use of it.
> >
> >
> > Anyway thanks for the help.  It might amuse you to know that I went
> > through an entire 20+ page paper (at the insistence of a coauthor) and
> > didn't find a single actual misspelling.
> >
> >
> > Michael
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 14, 2019 4:30:25 PM
> > *To:* James Diamond <jim.diamond at acadiau.ca>
> > *Cc:* Michael Barr, Prof. <barr.michael at mcgill.ca>; TeXhax <
> texhax at tug.org
> > >
> > *Subject:* Re: Can anyone recommend a spell checker for tex files?
> >
> > The OP states that he uses a third-party editor. The tricky part here is
> > to get the TeX codes and commands cleared out of the file to be
> > spelled...not the speller itself since there are tons of them. This
> should
> > be the job of this third party editor or of TeXshop, luatex or even
> > detex...but my question is -- what is the application you used to run for
> > that? I am not aware of any under MS-Windows.
> >
> > Paulo Ney
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 1:10 PM James Diamond via texhax <texhax at tug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 17:11 (+0000), Michael Barr, Prof. wrote:
> >
> > > All the answers I find on the web either require Luatex or that you be
> > running under some version of Unix.  I use MS-windows and a third party
> > editor.  I used to have a very good one, but it is 16 bit and all recent
> > versions of Win won't run it.
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > I never use MS-windows, but aside from the texworks suggestion, you
> > could probably get a spell checker running under emacs, should that
> > appeal.
> >
> >                                 Jim
> >
> >
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