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I know I can use TeXShop or any other word processing program to spell check my document, but I was wondering, if there are any spell checking scripts, which run in a shell/Terminal.

I saw that there is a program called aspell, but it hasn't been updated for a long time. Are there any good programs/scrips out there?

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The fact that aspell has not been updated for a long time IMHO means that it is good. I use it regularly. You only face a problem of recognizing LaTeX keywords, but after couple documents, you add most of them into your dictionary and then you happily spell-check ;)

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While aspell still works well, the new rage seems to be hunspell. It can also check LaTeX files.

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Do you know how to install dictionaries for hunspell? Can' seem to figure it out. Running hunspell -d en_US $FILENAME gives me the error: Can't open affix or dictionary files for dictionary named "en_US" – cherrung Jan 24 at 13:37
@cherrung My dictionaries came with packages like myspell-american etc., since hunspell is based on myspell. I don't know how those packages are called on the Mac (you are on a Mac, right?). – mafp Jan 24 at 15:46

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