Spell-checking LaTeX documents

I do most of my typing in LaTeX using Kile in Ubuntu. However the default state of the current spell-checker is not the greatest. It takes too much of my time trying to correct all the LaTeX commands, comments etc. If you are not scared of the commandline aspell can do this in terminal window, quite successfully.

Try it using:

aspell -c myfile.tex

If you write in another language, say German, you need to install the German dictionary and use:

aspell -l de -c myfile.tex