On 2015-02-01, at 22:06, Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com wrote:
Is the character count “wc --char textfile” returns with or without
blank spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man wc” doesn’t talk about that.
I had hoped there was a better way than to edit the result of
“pdftotext”
So I hope you might get bored once in a while before I have to write my
bachelor thesis :)
Greetings Jörg
On 02.02.2015 00:56, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 2/1/2015 10:06 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:
Is the character count “wc --char textfile” returns with or without
blank spaces? (Which is important for
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:55:35 +0100
Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
this feature relates to (simple) spell checking and collectign words
for dedicated spell check lists and, 4 chars is nearly always avalid
word which is why we discard them
English is rich in four-letter words!
Alan ;-)
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:20:15 +0100
Keith Schultz keithjschu...@icloud.com wrote:
Hello All,
As a linguist, I can say that not counting words that are shorter is
an absolute NO-GO for an accurate word count and thereby character
count!
See below, for a non representative proof !
Am
On 2/2/2015 4:39 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
ConTeXt has an option to count the words (you find the result in
jobname.words) in a document but words words shorter than four
letters aren’t taken into account.
word length under 4 characters : 10
word length = 4 chars : 20
here
Hello All,
As a linguist, I can say that not counting words that are shorter is an
absolute NO-GO
for an accurate word count and thereby character count!
See below, for a non representative proof !
Am 01.02.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com:
[snip, snip]
Is there a way to report the “character count including spaces” of the
resulting PDF in ConTeXt?
Greetings Jörg
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On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, Jörg Weger wrote:
Is there a way to report the “character count including spaces” of the
resulting PDF in ConTeXt?
Given that these counts are never accurate, how about
pdftotext filename
followed by
wc filename
On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:12:54 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote:
\setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2]
\starttext
\input knuth
\stoptext
Slightly off-topic: Just as Wolfgang's reply came in I was setting up a
new version of
http://tinyspell.com/
Editor-based
On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:11:48 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 01.02.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu:
words shorter than four letters aren’t taken into account.
I get *some* words shorter than four letters in
Is the character count “wc --char textfile” returns with or without
blank spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man wc” doesn’t talk about that.
I had hoped there was a better way than to edit the result of
“pdftotext” in my text editor or in libreoffice writer (deleting
unnecessary carriage
Am 01.02.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu:
words shorter than four letters aren’t taken into account.
I get *some* words shorter than four letters in the output, so there must be
some other logic going on…
Do you have a few examples?
On 2/1/2015 10:06 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:
Is the character count “wc --char textfile” returns with or without
blank spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man wc” doesn’t talk about
that.
I had hoped there was a better way than to edit the result of
“pdftotext” in my text editor or in libreoffice
Am 01.02.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com:
Is the character count “wc --char textfile” returns with or without blank
spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man wc” doesn’t talk about that.
I had hoped there was a better way than to edit the result of “pdftotext”
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