Alexander Zeilmann

My LaTeX Workflow – Spell Checking

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In this article from 2022 I went extensively over how to configure your editor to check spelling and grammar automatically. However the setup and configuration of the tools (LTeX, Grammarly and CSpell) was not trivial as I already wrote in the original article. Now in the last last few years a lot has changed through the rise of large language models and I want to update the article to reflect the current state of the tools.

After I discussed a few tools for generating LaTeX as part of my series on my LaTeX workflow, it is now time to spell check the text we have written. This used to be an annoying and time consuming task.

However the rise of large language models has made this task much easier.

  • Check the text for spelling and grammar mistakes

  • Improve the wording and structure of the text which is a part of a thesis/paper/mail/etc.

  • Shorten/Extend the text by roughly 10% while keeping the meaning

Conclusion

This wraps up the blog post on how I configured three spell checkers in vscode. I hope these instructions will help you to set up the spell checkers yourself to detect some mistakes and improve your writing. You should also have a look at the other posts in my LaTeX workflow series, that cover everything from generating LaTeX code to my literature management. Do you have any other tools that might fit in my LaTeX workflow? Please tell me on Twitter! I will update the article and add new ones as my workflow evolves. So come back regularly or subscribe to my RSS feed.