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Article #2469Re: word count on latex document
From: Edgar Knapp
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 17:58
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 17:58
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In article <5317@gara.une.oz.au> ascott@gara.une.oz.au (Tony Scott STPG) writes:
>
> Hi there,
> I need to count the number of words in a document that is
>built up of latex commands. Is there something available that will
>count words without taking into account words beginning with a
>backslash of those within a group such as
>\begin{picture}...\end{picture} etc.
There is a much simpler solution. Get a program called dvi2tty which
allows you to preview a dvi file on a line oriented device (terminal,
line printer). Pipe its output thorugh wc---voila.
So if your file is called foo.tex, say
dvi2tty foo | wc
dvi2tty is available via anonymous ftp from a number of archives
around the country, including sun.soe.clarkson.edu (128.153.12.3) on
directory /pub/tex/tex-programs/dvitty; wc is a standard unix
utitlity.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Tony Scott
My pleasure.
Edgar
(knapp@cs.utexas.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!knapp From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: word count on latex document Summary: use dvi2tty and wc Keywords: word count wc latex Message-ID: <605@roxor.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 17:58:55 GMT References: <5317@gara.une.oz.au> Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin Lines: 30