Re: your mail

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

I find interactive spell checking time-consuming and annoying in any
word processor. With XY, if you spell-check the whole file once it is
written, the output is a TMP file which lists the misspelled words.
You can use it in a number of ways, including adding corrected words
to each item you WANT corrected, and using auto-correct to do the job
more or less instantly. You can speed that up with a macro that
copies a second instance of each misspelled word on the same line as
the first, so instead of retyping all you have to do is fix it.

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Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325
(nsivin@xxxxxxxx)