Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:40:35PM -0400, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:32:28AM +0930, Darren Freeman wrote: > > > > > > I couldn't find a way to get a word count in LyX 1.2.1 (other than > > > > spellchecking which is a pain). > > > > > Long-requested, and long wanted. > > > > It just hit me--why not just list this as a command, but have it do a > > text export piped to wc? > > > > hawk > > Yes, I have used this. wc -w in a pipe. Works. But not very > accurate... includes LyX key words etc. > There should not be LyX key words etc. in an ASCII export, but I just tested a short file with a table. Spellcheck said 407 words, wc -w on the exported .txt file said 475. There were lots of a abbreviations like U.S.A. and dates. A test with the line: "test of wc and spellcheck 10 2002"
wc counted the numbers, spellcheck did not. Garst
