On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Csikos Bela <bcsikos...@freemail.hu>wrote:
> stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> írta: > >On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu> > wrote: > > >>>Hello: > >>>Occasionally it is necessary to count the total word or character > number in > >>>a document. > >>>Lyx has Tools->Statistics option for the document, but how can I make > >>>statistics that includes the text in the Bibliography which is not > edited in > >>l>yx? > > >>If is not edited in LyX there is no way LyX can count the words, so I use > >>Okular to do this kind of things once the document is ready. > > >Alex,I never knew Okular could do document statistics. Is it a plugin/ > >extension/whatever? My version of okular does not seem to have any > >facility of the kind. I use pdftotxt | wc -w when I need to obtain final > >figures. I'd be glad to skip a step or two and use okular directly. > > Thanks. > > bcsikos > > > Any decent text editor will count up words for you, as will Open Office/Libre Office. I usually use TextWrangler.app (Mac OS, freeware). Take your PDF, copy and paste the contents into a text file, and you'll have an estimate. All estimates of word counts are imprecise because of variable definitions of what a "word" is. Maria
