On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:07:57 -0400 > Maria Gouskova <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Csikos Bela > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > stefano franchi <[email protected]> írta: > > > >On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Alex Vergara Gil [email protected]> > > > 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}. > You can use the detex utility for that: $ man detex NAME detex - a filter to strip TeX commands from a .tex file. That will not help you with the bibliography, however, if (as it sometimes happens) you need to include references in the word count. Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
