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+#!/bin/sh
+#             __________               __   ___.
+#   Open      \______   \ ____   ____ |  | _\_ |__   _______  ___
+#   Source     |       _//  _ \_/ ___\|  |/ /| __ \ /  _ \  \/  /
+#   Jukebox    |    |   (  <_> )  \___|    < | \_\ (  <_> > <  <
+#   Firmware   |____|_  /\____/ \___  >__|_ \|___  /\____/__/\_ \
+#                     \/            \/     \/    \/            \/
+#
+# Spell check files from the Rockbox manual.
+#
+# Call the script with a single file to spellcheck. Call it without arguments
+# to spellcheck all files in the manual tree except preamble.tex.
+# This will invoke aspell interactively.
+
+MANDIR=$(dirname $0)
+if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
+    TEX_FILES="$1"
+else
+    TEX_FILES=$(find "$MANDIR" -name "*.tex" | sed -e "s/\S*preamble.tex//")
+fi
+
+for file in $TEX_FILES; do
+    aspell -t -l en_UK-ise --add-tex-command="opt pp" \
+    --add-tex-command="nopt pp" --add-tex-command="screenshot ppo" \
+    --add-tex-command="reference p" --add-tex-command="fname p" \
+    --add-tex-command="wikilink p" --add-tex-command="IfFileExists p" \
+    --add-tex-command="newcommand pp" --add-tex-command="renewcommand pp" \
+    --add-tex-command="download p" \
+    -c $file
+done