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Article #2461Re: word count on latex document
From: Sebastian Rahtz
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 17:26
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 17:26
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In article <3635@scott.ed.ac.uk> rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale) writes: I've often wished for such a thing, but it has always seemed to me that this really ought to have been part of [La]TeX's functionality: after all, only [La]TeX knows how many words were *really* output -- LaTeX has no idea how many words were output. What is a `word'? LaTeX outputs a description of a page composed of a series of glyphs. LaTeX is not a word-processor! The exisiting detex and delatex programs do a good enough job for spelling checkers, so I assume word counts would work OK sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: word count on latex document Message-ID: <SPQR.91Feb1172611@cameron.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Date: 1 Feb 91 17:26:11 GMT References: <5317@gara.une.oz.au> <3635@scott.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 18 In-reply-to: rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of 31 Jan 91 12:25:28 GMT