[TxMt] Word Count ?

[Paul McCann]

Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

> There is a limit to how fast an accurate utility could be if it is  
> to accommodate the kind of procedural aspects of LaTeX syntax that  
> Haris was referring to.

Indeed: but all that work has already been done, as the command is  
operating on the pdf file. So the real question becomes: why is  
ps2ascii (aka ghostscript) so slow? (Just checked on my work machine,  
a 2GHz intel iMac with 2G of memory, and it's still about 30 seconds  
on a 250 page, 1.2MB pdf file.)

I guess it's just an irreducibly difficult procedure... Moral of this  
story? Don't count words very often!

Cheers,
Paul