Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 05:57:21 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.

Rich,

If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in
other word processor), which easily counts the number of words.
Afterwards, you can copy your abstract into LyX.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
I typically write the abstract in LyX and the copy  paste it to
Nedit, which can count the words.

Re: Counting Words

[Lyx User]

- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
- first convert to pdf, then
  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
  This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rich

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in other
word processor), which easily counts the number of words. Afterwards, you
can copy your abstract into LyX.
Paul,
  I planned on writing it in emacs then importing the final version into
LyX. But, I still wondered if LyX had the ability to count words.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
 to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
  This will count the title, author's name and all markup as well as the
body text.
- first convert to pdf, then
 use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
 http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
 http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
 in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
 This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?
  Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and you've all confirmed
that. Off to emacs it is.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words

$ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt

-- 
Angus

Re: Counting Words

[Gerhard Lindel]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi,
in such cases I use the spell-checker. This tells you how much words the 
file has.
Gerhard

Re: Counting Words

[Robert Orr]

Perhaps you could try something like this using AWK
BEGIN{
}
/^#/ {
next
}
/^\\/ {
next
}
{
words += NF
}
END {
printf (I think there are about %d words in that LyX
file.\n,words)
}
--- Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
 
  - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc
 yourfile.lyx
   to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
 
This will count the title, author's name and all
 markup as well as the
 body text.
 
  - first convert to pdf, then
   use a tool that can count words in pdf documents,
 e.g.
   http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
   http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
  - let someone or yourself implement this great
 feature
   in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested
 feature.
   This would be easy, just integrate one of the
 previous programs?
 
Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and
 you've all confirmed
 that. Off to emacs it is.
 
 Rich
 
 -- 
 Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517  
 Fax: 503-667-8863
 





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Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 05:57:21 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.

Rich,

If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in
other word processor), which easily counts the number of words.
Afterwards, you can copy your abstract into LyX.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
I typically write the abstract in LyX and the copy  paste it to
Nedit, which can count the words.

Re: Counting Words

[Lyx User]

- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
- first convert to pdf, then
  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
  This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
 words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
 (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Rich

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in other
word processor), which easily counts the number of words. Afterwards, you
can copy your abstract into LyX.
Paul,
  I planned on writing it in emacs then importing the final version into
LyX. But, I still wondered if LyX had the ability to count words.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
 to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
  This will count the title, author's name and all markup as well as the
body text.
- first convert to pdf, then
 use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
 http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
 http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
 in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
 This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?
  Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and you've all confirmed
that. Off to emacs it is.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc yourfile.lyx
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words

$ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt

-- 
Angus

Re: Counting Words

[Gerhard Lindel]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi,
in such cases I use the spell-checker. This tells you how much words the 
file has.
Gerhard

Re: Counting Words

[Robert Orr]

Perhaps you could try something like this using AWK
BEGIN{
}
/^#/ {
next
}
/^\\/ {
next
}
{
words += NF
}
END {
printf (I think there are about %d words in that LyX
file.\n,words)
}
--- Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
 
  - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. wc
 yourfile.lyx
   to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
 
This will count the title, author's name and all
 markup as well as the
 body text.
 
  - first convert to pdf, then
   use a tool that can count words in pdf documents,
 e.g.
   http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
   http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
  - let someone or yourself implement this great
 feature
   in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested
 feature.
   This would be easy, just integrate one of the
 previous programs?
 
Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was no and
 you've all confirmed
 that. Off to emacs it is.
 
 Rich
 
 -- 
 Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517  
 Fax: 503-667-8863
 





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Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 05:57:21 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
> words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
> 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
> (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.

Rich,

If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in
other word processor), which easily counts the number of words.
Afterwards, you can copy your abstract into LyX.

I hope this helps.

Paul

Re: Counting Words

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
I typically write the abstract in LyX and the copy & paste it to
Nedit, which can count the words.

Re: Counting Words

[Lyx User]

- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx"
  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
- first convert to pdf, then
  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
  This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
> words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
> 300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
> (report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
If the abstract has text only, you can write it in OpenOffice (or in other
word processor), which easily counts the number of words. Afterwards, you
can copy your abstract into LyX.
Paul,
  I planned on writing it in emacs then importing the final version into
LyX. But, I still wondered if LyX had the ability to count words.
Thanks,
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
- use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx"
 to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
  This will count the title, author's name and all markup as well as the
body text.
- first convert to pdf, then
 use a tool that can count words in pdf documents, e.g.
 http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
 http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
- let someone or yourself implement this great feature
 in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested feature.
 This would be easy, just integrate one of the previous programs?
  Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was "no" and you've all confirmed
that. Off to emacs it is.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Counting Words

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>> - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc yourfile.lyx"
>>  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words

$ lyx -export ascii yourfile.lyx; wc -w yourfile.txt; rm -f yourfile.txt

-- 
Angus

Re: Counting Words

[Gerhard Lindel]

Rich Shepard schrieb:
  Is there a way -- other than running the spell checker which counts all
words -- to obtain a word count for a document? Specifically, I have a
300-word limit for an abstract I am writing and I'd like to write it in LyX
(report class) and submit it as a pdf file.
Thanks,
Rich
Hi,
in such cases I use the spell-checker. This tells you how much words the 
file has.
Gerhard

Re: Counting Words

[Robert Orr]

Perhaps you could try something like this using AWK
BEGIN{
}
/^#/ {
next
}
/^\\/ {
next
}
{
words += NF
}
END {
printf ("I think there are about %d words in that LyX
file.\n",words)
}
--- Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Lyx User wrote:
> 
> > - use wc (lines/words/chars count), e.g. "wc
> yourfile.lyx"
> >  to estimate the (relative?!) number of words
> 
>This will count the title, author's name and all
> markup as well as the
> body text.
> 
> > - first convert to pdf, then
> >  use a tool that can count words in pdf documents,
> e.g.
> >  http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
> >  http://www.handyarchive.com/free/word-count/
> > - let someone or yourself implement this great
> feature
> >  in lyx ;) I bet it is already a requested
> feature.
> >  This would be easy, just integrate one of the
> previous programs?
> 
>Thanks, all. I suspected the answer was "no" and
> you've all confirmed
> that. Off to emacs it is.
> 
> Rich
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
>    Voice: 503-667-4517  
> Fax: 503-667-8863
> 





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Re: Suggestion/Question: counting words

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 "Mark" == Mark van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Mark I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in
Mark lyx.

Mark One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii
Mark psfile |wc' But often one wants to count words in a certain
Mark section only.

You will get it at the end of a spellcheck session.

JMarc

Re: Suggestion/Question: counting words

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 "Mark" == Mark van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Mark I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in
Mark lyx.

Mark One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii
Mark psfile |wc' But often one wants to count words in a certain
Mark section only.

You will get it at the end of a spellcheck session.

JMarc

Re: Suggestion/Question: counting words

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Mark" == Mark van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Mark> I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in
Mark> lyx.

Mark> One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii
Mark> psfile |wc' But often one wants to count words in a certain
Mark> section only.

You will get it at the end of a spellcheck session.

JMarc

Suggestion/Question: counting words

[Mark van Rossum]

I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in lyx.

One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii psfile |wc'
But often one wants to count words in a certain section only.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Mark van Rossum
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
phone:(781)-736-2319; home:(617)-864-1802

Suggestion/Question: counting words

[Mark van Rossum]

I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in lyx.

One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii psfile |wc'
But often one wants to count words in a certain section only.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Mark van Rossum
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
phone:(781)-736-2319; home:(617)-864-1802

Suggestion/Question: counting words

[Mark van Rossum]

I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in lyx.

One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii psfile |wc'
But often one wants to count words in a certain section only.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Mark van Rossum
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
phone:(781)-736-2319; home:(617)-864-1802