Re: Spell checking in tex files

>>David Woodfall wrote:
>>>Spellcheck is turned off by default in tex files, so I have enabled it
>>>with 'syntax spell toplevel'.
>>>
>>>When I also try to add a new syntax cluster, like:
>>>
>>>syn match Ellipsis /[.][.][.]\s\l/ contains=@NoSpell transparent
>>>syn cluster Spell add=Ellipsis
>>>
>>>it seems to make no difference.
>>>
>>>Does toplevel override this cluster, or what is going on here?
>>>
>>* Spell checking is *not* turned off by default in tex files. To enable
>>spell checking in English:
>>
>> :setl spell spelllang=en_us
>>
>> Of course, you may or may not be using English, so modify the above
>>command according to your preferences.
>>
>>* You want Ellipsis not to be spell-checked, but to take on the
>>highlighting of whatever syntax it appears in. You also want the
>>Ellipsis pattern to be in the Spell cluster, presumably so that it gets
>>treated as a correct spelling. I tried it out and it seemed to work to
>>prevent "... b", for example, from being flagged as a spelling error.
>>So more info, please -- what is it that "seems to make no difference?"
>>Example, please. I've attached a pair of files myself.
>>
>> vim woodfall.tex
>> :setl spell spelllang=en_us
>> (shows spelling errors)
>> :so woodfall.vim
>> (spelling errors gone)
>>
>>Regards,
>>Chip Campbell
>
>Yes, I already have spell turned on and set to en_us.
>
>Without 'syn spell toplevel' nothing seems to be checked except the
>preamble, including the Hello line that I added.
>
>With it, your words are highlighted by spellcapcheck. I've changed
>the original .tex so that they aren't highlighted as misspellings:
>
>\documentclass[12pt]{article}
>\begin{document}
> ... a
> ... bee
> ... cat
> ... dog
> ... egg
> Hello. do
>
>\end{document}
>
>Now they are still highlighted as having bad case, but not as misspelt.
>
>The problem seems to be that spellcapcheck will pick up on anything
>that ends with a period, including ellipses. This shouldn't happen.
>
>D.

Hmm I've just renamed ~/.vim to ~/.vim-bak and have some different
results. I'm not quite sure what is interfering with it yet...

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