On 3 May, Mark Hansel wrote: > If you are using a *nix, you can strip all the lyx and latex > lines from the file and pipe the text only to wc. The idea is > not mine and appeared on this list about half a year ago. I > have the command in a script that is sometimes useful. > > grep -v "[\]" $1|grep -v "$L yx 1.1" |grep -v "^$" > > If you understand this, you should be able to figure out what > to do with it. Make sure to do the right thing with the "$1" > (replace with file name or put it back into a script so the $1 > makes sense). > > If your are using windows, you have my pity.
There is a program detex, which does basically the same as above oneliner (only in much more sophisticated manner), so you can do detex docname.tex | wc -w (yes, Virginia, both commands DO exist for both *nix and M$-* systems). Matej
