I try to separated my LaTeX files into content files, and macro files. In content files, I minimize the use of macros, trying to restrict these to markup only,
e.g., \section
, \caption
. The benefit is that you can spell check only content files, and allow the spell checker to check everything except for words which begin with a backslash.
The main difficulty is with labels and citation. It is customary to use words separated with columns as labels for figures, sections, etc. Even if all words are spelled correctly, my spell checkers gets confused by these. Is there another convention which is friendlier to spell checkers?
A related question is that of citations. Author names are typically a problem, but I guess one should add the main author names to the user defined dictionary, but perhaps someone has a better scheme?
Does it makes sense to place dash (minus symbol) or slash characters in labels? E.g., something as simple as label{Figure/time/series}
?