[OS X TeX] statistics

[Herbert Schulz]

Howdy,

Basically it pipes the output of detex to wc. So the TeX commands are removed before the count. 

I doubt there are any perfect ways to do this sort of stuff; it's always an approximation.  

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz


> On Aug 29, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Justin C. Walker <justin at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 23:20 , Nicolae Garleanu wrote:
>> 
>> I have OS X 10.10.4. Restarting did not help (as expected). If of any help, `Character Info…’ does display the number of words, though it includes the ones commented out.
> 
> I'm not sure what 'statistics...' is supposed to provide (as hinted by Herb, it may just present what the command-line program "wc" provides, in which case, it's just a simple-minded counting program, unaware of TeX syntax or semantics).
> 
> Is this a change?  Your original post said the counts were 0/0/0.
> 
> Following up on Herb's questions, what does "wc x.tex" show ('x' being your source file)?
> 
> HTH
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