[OS X TeX] counting words in 2010

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On Mon 1st Nov, 2010 at 01:02, Peter Dyballa seems to have written:

>
> Am 31.10.2010 um 23:55 schrieb Michael Sharpe:
>
>> This does of course give an incorrect count because words were run together 
>> in LaTeX mode that were not run together in plain tex mode. I would 
>> consider thia a bug in detex. (I'm using the x86-64 version that came with 
>> TeXLive 2010, but I get exactly the same result with detex from the 2008 
>> distribution.)
>
>
> I can confirm that detex from the test or pre-test versions of TL '10 and '11 
> shows the faulty behaviour you describe and Clea first found. I cannot 
> confirm the behaviour in TL '08, for me it's correct. I have PPC hardware and 
> PPC binaries, except for TL '10 pre, which are UB.

I also don't see the problem with TL '08. Similarly for TL '09. It
first appears for me in TL '10. And I am also on PPC.

> The same faulty behaviour appears when using -w (or -wt) and -wl: In the 
> LaTeX case the footnote text is removed. (BTW, after the comma and before 
> \\emph I had inserted a TAB. In your output Michael, you can see the SPACE 
> character which is substituted for the footnote text, see later.)
>
>
> The problem is also with the test file for detex:
>
> 	\documentclass{article}
> 	\begin{document}
>
> 	This is the first paragraph.
>
> 	\section{First Section}
>
> 	Preamble of Sect.~1.
>
> 	\subsection{A Subsection}
>
> 	Here some text, an inline formula $(a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2$, as well
> 	as a displayed equation
> 	%
> 	\begin{equation}
> 	e^{\pm ix}=\cos x \pm i \sin x\;,
> 	\end{equation}
> 	%
> 	and some more text.
>
> 	Now some verbatim text \verb|a b c|.  That's all, folks.
>
> 	\end{document}
>
> There is no \footnote{} in it...
>
>
> There is also another bug in detex, I think. I looked into the (F)LEX output, 
> which has:
>
> 	<Normal>"\\part"{Z}				;
> 	<Normal>"\\section"{Z}				;
> 	<Normal>"\\subsection"{Z}			;
> 	<Normal>"\\subsubsection"{Z}			;
> 	<Normal>"\\paragraph"{Z}			;
> 	<Normal>"\\sunparagraph"{Z}			;
>
> Well, I *can* understand why in November one thinks of the sun – but it's 
> wrong! Later this line comes:
>
> 	<Normal>"\\footnote"				{KILLARGS(1); SPACE;}
>
> Here we have it: a footnote is not assumed to be counted...
>
>
> Other bugs, a "d" too much in "and":
>
> 	ErrorExit("-e option requires and argument");
>
> and too obvious:
>
> 	    ErrorExit("The environtment list contains too many 
> environments");
>
>
> At daylight I'll send a message to the TeX Live list, I won't mention the 
> footnote problem. Clea, are you going to send a message yourself?

I can certainly do that.

Thanks,
Clea

> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> November, n.:
> 	The eleventh twelfth of a weariness.
> 		– Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
>