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24.3.50; Underscore in LaTeX comments can mess up ispell

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From: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin <at> hispalinux.es>
To: 14419-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14419: 24.3.50; ispell behaves badly with some TeX documents
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:52:15 +0100

forcemerge 13577 14419
thanks

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:21:26PM -0600, Ivan Andrus wrote:
> ispell can overlook misspellings and (more annoyingly though easier to 
> detect) can start spell checking everything in math mode.
> 
> 
> 1. emacs -Q
> 
> 2. Edit the following document in latex-mode (built in or AUCTeX):
> 
> 
> % \documentclass[12pt,draft,a4paper]{report}
> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> Representation theory concerns itself with the cases when $Y$ is the general linear group $\GL_{n}(k)$, for some field $k$.
> 
> spelling is basd $badmath$ here
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> 3. Run ispell-buffer
> 
> 4. It asks you to correct the word badmath.  This is in math mode and
>   should be skipped.  Moreover, it missed basd outside of math mode.
> 
> 5. Delete the commented documentclass line (or move it after the other)
>   and things work as they are supposed to.

Also fixed (in trunk) by commit r116025. Indeed it is the same problem. 
Closing bug report and merging both.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin

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