Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Spellchecking DocBook

[Ian Castle <ian.castle@looksystems.co.uk>]

On UNIX I use aspell which understands SGML/XML tags

aspell --mode=sgml check file.xml

You would probably have to find some fancy XML editor on the Windows
platform that would do the job....


On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 17:31, Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> 
> I have to find a spellchecking solution for users that are 
> familiar with MS Word, to apply to DocBook SGML (later XML) 
> document instances. Right now either the SGML source is
> spellchecked in Word, or the RTF rendering is, with the
> changes being transferred into the SGML. The ideal solution
> would be a Win32 program (even Word, if there is a configuration)
> that can be educated to ignore tags (maybe using a custom
> dictionary?), or even the content of certain elements.
> Another posssible solution would be a Linux/UNIX commandline
> tool that runs as batch spitting out error lists that can be
> turned into dictionaries.
> 
> Recommendations and links very welcome. Thanks,
> 
> 
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