Re: LaTeX word count?
There's detex (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex/) which
removes latex commands from source; and there's dvi2tty (I'm pretty sure
it's available through dselect) which prints dvi output to the terminal so
you can do dvi2tty foo.dvi | wc -w . Note that dvi2tty is somewhat
inaccurate since words that are hyphenated end up counted twice (once on
each line).
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
(Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
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On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Neil Conway wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a way to count the number of works in a LaTeX document.
> I need the number of words that will be produced in the output, not
> the number of words in the source document (i.e. so 'wc -w' is
> inaccurate).
>
> Does such a package exist? Or is there some other way to do this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Neil
>
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