[TxMt] Word Count ?

[Tim Lahey]

No,

I just checked and you're right. Plus, some things are still there
that one wouldn't want. I did however find,

http://catdvi.sourceforge.net/

which is a DVI to plaintext translator. I don't know how well it
works though.

Cheers,

Tim.

On 11/29/06, Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Tim Lahey wrote:
>
> > Probably the easiest thing to do is make a command
> > that runs detex on the document (which strips the commands out)
> > and pipe that through the word count.
>
> That assumes one is not using commands that automatically generate
> text. I.e. what happens if I do:
>
> \newcommand{\this}{Hi there! }
>
> and then the document contains:
>
> \this\this\this
>
> I would guess detex will not count those 6 words, will it?
>
> Haris
>
>
>
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