Recommendation: Spell Checking Tool

[Thomas Dowling]

Hmm.  A minor nit, but if it really ignores HTML markup, why doesn't it
ignore character entities?  The only misspellings it found on my home page
were "OhioLINK" (fair enough) and "nbsp".

BTW, if you're a do-it-yourselfer and have a Unix shell account, try 
"lynx -nolist -dump http://wherever/ | spell"

Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Ohio Library and Information Network

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> From: Carole Leita <leita at netcom.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Recommendation: Spell Checking Tool
> Date: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 8:50 AM
> 
> If you do a lot of web pages, it's amazing how many typos and spelling
> errors slip through the cracks. I've found this to be a great tool for
> catching them.
> 
> WebSter's Dictionary 2.0 at http://www.goldendome.net/Tools/WebSter/ 
> 
> is a spell checker for WWW documents. Enter a URL and this program will
> retrieve the document and spell check it. Any HTML markup is ignored. An
> easy way to check documents for mistakes without having to deal with the
> problems of a traditional spell checker finding all that markup code.