Latex: No spell checking within escaped $

[jgoeders]

In the sample .tex code below, the first and third instance of dolllar is identified as incorrectly spelling. However, when you have any text between $ symbols it is not checked.

dolllar 

Spelling checks between escaped \$1,000 dolllar symbols do not work \$1,000. 

dolllar 

Normally between $ symbols is math mode and it would be correct to not spell check; however, in this case the symbols are escaped and I am actually trying to use the $ (dollar) symbol in my document.

Currently nearly my entire large .tex document is not spell checked because I have a $ symbol near the beginning and near the end.

[Jason3S]

@jgoeders,

This is really an issue with how the exclusions are defined in the LaTeX dictionary settings.

[Jason3S]

@jgoeders,

It should be fixed with the next release.

It might be a few days before this is fixed in the VS Code extension. In the mean time, you can redefine the pattern locally:

VS Code Settings

"cSpell.languageSettings": [
    {
        "languageId": "latex",
        "patterns": [
            {
                "name": "LaTexMath",
                "pattern": "/(?<!\\\\)[$][^$]*[$]/g",
                "description": "Match against LaTex Math Macros"
            }
        ]
    }
]

cspell.json

You could also add the following cspell.json file to your project.

{
"languageSettings": [
    {
        "languageId": "latex",
        "patterns": [
            {
                "name": "LaTexMath",
                "pattern": "/(?<!\\\\)[$][^$]*[$]/g",
                "description": "Match against LaTex Math Macros"
            }
        ]
    }
]
}