The following is a minimal example of LaTeX code that breaks the spell checker: \caption{5\% \label{_fred}} \autoref{alice} envolope When I spell-check this it fails to notice that 'envolope' is mis-spelled. If I remove the underscore from _fred or remove the \% then the spell checker works fine. Also, If I change the emacs default to use ispell instead of aspell then it works fine. Running the file through aspell on the command line also finds the spelling error. I can only conclude that there's a bug in the bit of emacs that runs LaTeX code through aspell. Any ideas? I'm using emacs version 24.4.1 and aspell version 3.1.20 (but really 0.60.7-20110707); The default packages are from the Debian Jessie repo. P.S I know the LaTeX code isn't complete, but my original comipled just fine and aspell still wouldn't find the spelling error. Configured using: `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_GB.utf8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: LaTeX Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: /usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/ispell /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/flyspell /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/textmodes/rst Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode easymenu ispell tex-mode compile shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring latexenc cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 95454 3258) (symbols 48 20235 0) (miscs 40 59 219) (strings 32 16158 4364) (string-bytes 1 513962) (vectors 16 11281) (vector-slots 8 407759 3174) (floats 8 71 533) (intervals 56 360 16) (buffers 960 13) (heap 1024 43833 1092))