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My only concern about all this Markdown, Latex etc. is "spell checking". I'm Turkish and written several books (jQuery, php, javascript) but all of them were written in Microsoft Word because only Word has the most comprehensive spell checking for Turkish.

Can someone suggest me a good Latex editor with good spell-checking (other than English)?

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Emacs is a great editor for LaTeX and also has spell checking. I don't know what open source Turkish spell checking is available, though.

Since someone mentionned emacs, I feel obligated to mention vim :)

Much like emacs, a great editor. I have used it alongide the LanguageTool[1] plugin for the spell checking part. I didn't like the fact it required Java (the plugin, not vim) to do it's job, but having spell/grammar checking within vim without having to resort to dirty tricks with Word / LibreOffice was well worth it. [1]http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3223

Just to be clear, Vim has had built-in spelling checker since v7.0 (released 2006). The LanguageTool plugin may be handy for spelling and other grammar checking issues but users requiring straight-forward spelling functionality will most likely have essential spell-checking features available out-of-the-box.

Notepad++ also has a spell checker which is pretty decent and afaik supports other languages.

It supports spell checking with ASpell but it doesn't have Turkish pack.

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