From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:11:54 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes' In-Reply-To: <201711230105.vAN15NI6026629@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201711230105.vAN15NI6026629@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: > On Nov 22, 2017, at 5:05 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote: > > The first one was a fantastic tour de force by Bob Morris, > called "typo". Aside from the file "eign" of the very most common > English words, it had no vocabulary. Instead it evaluated the > likelihood that any particular word came from a source with the > same letter-trigram frequencies as the document as a whole. The > words were then printed in increasing order of likelihood. Typos > tended to come early in the list. This was written up in the same BSTJ number that talked about many of the troff pre-processors and other DWB tools, IIRC. Was that the "big" UNIX edition? Either way, the paper is well worth a read if you can find it (and I'm sorry I can't recall the title right now).