On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Bruce Pourciau < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:21 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > Couldn't one replace the inserted bibtex bibliography with the .bbl file > that it generates and then do the word count? > I suppose one could---never tried though. I don't know if detex is smart enough to handle references. I must say, though, that Maria's solution starts to be more appealing if you have to go through: export to latex/run latex and bibtex / open latex and bbl file in editor / append latter to former / detex and word count. If and when the "append bbl option" will be automated (see other threads), if could be relatively painless to implement a small utility that would count words in the final tex output. 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
