Great news for Praedor!
The wc command counts spaces, so if you simply remove the -c from the wc
command at the bottom of this thread, you'll see three numbers output on one
line. The first number is the number of lines, and is probably totally
meaningless. The second number is the number of words. The third number is
the number of characters, including spaces.
Steve
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On Friday 21 September 2001 19:51, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> Characters including spaces? Does any WP count spaces as characters? There
> certainly would be no tool for this, since LyX is very far from treating
> spaces as characters. If you aren't worried about the spaces between
> figures and such, then why be worried about the spaces between words and
> characters, since these are handled similarly to those of spaces between
> words, letters, and sentences?
>
> On Friday 21 September 2001 06:02 pm, you wrote:
> > Thanks. Now I have a new problem (for me) for which I am almost sure
> > there will be no tool for. First, for one of the journals that my paper
> > could be submitted to, a word count goes a long way but for another
> > (PNAS) it seems that they have a total character limit (words, spaces -
> > including spaces between words and so forth, but also the space taken up
> > by figures and tables).
> > I'll ask anyway...is there a tool/means of counting not only the words,
> > but also the total number of characters in a document? I'll not worry
> > about the space taken by figures and tables since they can be scaled down
> > (to a point) as needed. A word count gives me 5500, so a rough
> > guestimate of characters is at least twice that amount...
> >
> > On Friday 21 September 2001 02:58 am, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > Praedor Tempus hat gesagt: // Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 15 September 2001 07:43 am, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > > > I seem to recall seeing some question about this previously but
> > > > > cannot truly recall. How does one do a word count on a lyx
> > > > > document?
> > > >
> > > > Nevermind. Found it - do a spellcheck.
> > >
> > > If you hace "wc" installed, the following is faster:
> > >
> > > Choose "File->Export->Custom", File Type ASCII, Command "wc -w".
> >
> > [...]
