On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:07:57 -0400
Maria Gouskova <gousk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Hi Maria,
The one caveat with editor word counting, or for that matter piping the
file into wc, is that you need to find a way to not count markup like
\begin{standard}.
SteveT
