Timeline for Time-saving (technology) tricks for writing papers
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 7:52 | comment | added | Geordie Williamson | a lazy trick is to do the spell check in the compiled pdf document, rather than the latex. I do this in skim on a mac. It is a bit annoying (it thinks some formulas are spelling mistakes, thinks newlines are spelling mistakes, ...) but as a quick and dirty solution it is reasonable. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 21:35 | comment | added | Robert Furber | However, when using -ize, non-native speakers will have to memorize that there is no such word as "advertize", "advize" and "surprize" (though these spellings used to exist), even though these words are pronounced that way. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 21:33 | comment | added | Robert Furber | @Fosco This might be hard to get used to, but there is no central authority for what is "correct English". Like Daniel, I am a British -ize speller, and this is the traditional spelling for OUP publications, and is based on etymology (words with $\zeta$ in the original Greek). British newspapers use -ise, and many British people semi-learnedly claim all -ize spellings are American (wrongly, historically speaking). However, "analyze" is an example of a spelling that is used in American English, for good phonetic reasons, but not in Oxford spelling, because the word "analyse" comes from French. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 21:19 | comment | added | fosco | I use aspell since 5 years. One of the most precious findings ever. Just one thing: I prefer -ise over -ize if I write in British English (and I usually try). Am I wrong? | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 20:46 | comment | added | gsa | I like TeXtidote a lot. It can check spelling, grammar and style. It is based on LanguageTool. | |
| Jul 12, 2020 at 16:58 | comment | added | darij grinberg | @Daniel: aspell somehow doesn't seem to understand that inline equations are equations. Is there any trick to this? | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 21:25 | comment | added | Daniel |
On Linux you can use aspell, which has a build-in option to ignore TeX commands. Usage could be aspell -t -d en_GB_ize main.tex. The -t is the flag to specify TeX mode, -d en_GB_ize would for example specify British spelling with ize (Oxford spelling). Source is man aspell
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| Jul 11, 2020 at 18:55 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
specified that Excalibur is only for Macintosh
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| S Jul 11, 2020 at 17:20 | history | answered | Sam Hopkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| S Jul 11, 2020 at 17:20 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Sam Hopkins |