[OS X TeX] Word count function?
Maarten Sneep
maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Mon Jan 17 18:56:42 EST 2005
On 18 jan 2005, at 0:50, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:43:58PM -0600, Herb Schulz wrote:
>> On 1/17/05 4:49 PM, "Douglas Hemmick" <bellwasright at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ladies and gentlemen:
>>>
>>> Can I order TeX shop to perform a word count?
>>
>> pass the file through detex, to delete commands, and wc to count the
>> words,
>
> Of course...! So
>
> detex file.tex|wc -w
>
> in the terminal is even better!
And be sure to read
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wordcount
to understand why the result might be way off.
Maarten
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