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LaTeX and Word Count Revisited

In an earlier post I described a TextMate command for determining the word count for a LaTeX document. Simpling using

wc -w

gives an inflated estimate since it will include LaTeX commands. One alternative is to use detex:

detex mydocument.tex | wc -w

This will strip the LaTeX commands first before counting words but this assumes that you are […]

2007 12 30 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
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LaTeX, Word Count, and TextMate

I love LaTeX. But some things that are easy to do are just not obvious, especially to the uninitiated. Like word count. Someone recently asked me how to determine the word count of a LaTeX document. The problem is that we want to ignore the LaTeX markup, so just counting ‘words’ with:

wc -w

is going […]

2006 11 04 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
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