Re: word counting

jon wrote:
On Nov 3, 8:41 pm, cooc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Every so often, some journals/publishers get all cranky when I submit my
usual mega-ponderous tomes, making vague references to word limits and
such. Back in a dark era when I periodically used Word (mostly when
collaborating with others who used it exclusively) I did rather find the
'word count' feature useful. And, every so often (as noted) it would be
very handy if there was a way to count words - not in the .tex file
(since it would be hard to discriminate text from 'code'), but rather in
an output form (.dvi, .pdf). A few quality moments with our friends at
Google show there are some commercial tools for word counting PDF files,
but I was wondering if folks on this newsgroup had specific
recommendations/strategies for handling this?

just learnt about this one yesterday:

http://flesh.sourceforge.net/

between it and the texcount perl script (in the faq), you got two
pretty useful options. (texcount deals with the .tex file quite well;
flesh gets the .pdf, which means it will 'count' the words of the
bibliography as well.)

cheers,
jon.

Cheers for that - nice to have options.
.

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