RE: tlug: Counting words

[David Dibben <dibben@example.com>]

On 08-Sep-98 Rob Bickel wrote:
> This is a simple question, but I can't remember how to do it.
> What can I use to count the words in a tex file?  I don't really
> care if it is absolutely accurate or not.  I just need a round
> number.  

One thing you could do is get a program called detex which removes all the tex
stuff from the file and then pipe the result into wc
ie.

detex file.tex | wc -w



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Date: 08-Sep-98
Time: 16:18:26
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