aspell - how to ignore references inside \citep{} and \citet{} references

Question

I'm using aspell --version International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6) to verify my tex files with the command:

aspell -d pt_PT --dont-tex-check-comments  -c file0.tex

The problem is that ispell checks inside each

\citep{someone2011sometitle} 

and each

\citet{someone2011sometitle}

that I'm using with

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}

What can I do for ispell to ignore the references?

Answer 1

The manual says that you need to add the following to the command line:

--add-tex-command citep op --add-tex-command citet op

Here op means that each command (\citet or \citep) may have one optional parameter and has one mandatory parameter, and neither should be checked (if you want to check the optional one, use Op instead).

See http://aspell.net/0.50-doc/man-html/4_Customizing.html

Update: the proper syntax (for some versions of aspell?) might be

--add-tex-command="citep op" --add-tex-command="citet op"

Answer 2

To add the setting to the configuration file (/etc/aspell.conf or ~/.aspell.conf), you don't need the quotes:

add-tex-command citep op
add-tex-command citet op