Creating a Spelling Checker for reStructuredText Documents

I write a lot using reStructuredText files as the source format,
largely because of the ease of automating the tools used to convert
reST to other formats. The number of files involved has grown to the
point that some of the post-writing tasks were becoming tedious, and I
was skipping steps like running the spelling checker. I finally
decided to do something about that by creating a spelling checker
plugin for Sphinx, released as sphinxcontrib-spelling

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