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Thoroughly Spell-Checking a PhD Thesis

I always used aspell to spell check papers. I did not care about setting up a dictionary of words that aspell does not recognize due to time pressure. As papers usually involve few LaTeX files, this was an OK process. For my PhD thesis, however, I needed a more automatic and thorough process. This is because more files are involved and I had to spell check multiple times, several weeks or months apart, throughout the process. In this article, I want to share a semi-automatic but thorough process based on aspell and TeXtidote that worked well for me.

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