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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
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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)