ispell and LaTeX

[Stefan M. Moser]

Hi everybody!

I would like to enhance the ispell of my emacs in such a way that it DOES NOT 
check certain (in general not often used) LaTeX-commands. For example, in

                \eqref{eq:labelname}

I want ispell to ignore "eq" and "labelname". To this aim I have found a variable 
called "ispell-tex-skip-alists" that should do exactly this. However, when I set 
the variable in my .emacs-file nothing happens at all. Could anybody give me a 
hint what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

Stefan

This is the entry in my .emacs-file:

(setq ispell-tex-skip-alists
  '((("%\\[" . "%\\]")
     ;; All the standard LaTeX keywords from L. Lamport's guide:
     ;; \cite, \hspace, \hspace*, \hyphenation, \include, \includeonly, \input,
     ;; \label, \nocite, \rule (in ispell - rest included here)
     ("\\\\addcontentsline"              ispell-tex-arg-end 2)
     ("\\\\add\\(tocontents\\|vspace\\)" ispell-tex-arg-end)
     ("\\\\\\([aA]lph\\|arabic\\)"       ispell-tex-arg-end)
     ("\\\\author"                       ispell-tex-arg-end)
     ("\\\\bibliographystyle"            ispell-tex-arg-end)
     ("\\\\eqref"                        ispell-tex-arg-end)
     ("\\\\makebox"                      ispell-tex-arg-end 0)
     ;;("\\\\epsfig"            ispell-tex-arg-end)
     ("\\\\document\\(class\\|style\\)" .
      "\\\\begin[ \t\n]*{[ \t\n]*document[ \t\n]*}"))
    (;; delimited with \begin.  In ispell: displaymath, eqnarray, eqnarray*,
     ;; equation, minipage, picture, tabular, tabular* (ispell)
     ("\\(figure\\|table\\)\\*?"  ispell-tex-arg-end 0)
     ("list"                      ispell-tex-arg-end 2)
     ("IEEEeqnarray\\*?". "\\\\end[ \t\n]*{[ \t\n]*IEEEeqnarray\\*?[ \t\n]*}")
     ("program"         . "\\\\end[ \t\n]*{[ \t\n]*program[ \t\n]*}")
     ("verbatim\\*?"    . "\\\\end[ \t\n]*{[ \t\n]*verbatim\\*?[ \t\n]*}")
     ("gather\\*?"      . "\\\\end[ \t\n]*{[ \t\n]*gather\\*?[ \t\n]*}"))
))