[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,
I think that detex is not a proper tool for calculating the amount of
the text. Imagine the following plain TeX document:

\def\word{word}
\newcount\num
\loop \word \space \ifnum\num<10000 \advance\num1 \repeat
\bye

This creates 10 full pages of text but detex + wc says 4 3 17

2010/11/1 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mo, 01 Nov 2010, Dr. Clea F. Rees wrote:
>>       Test\footnote{ a footnote}  \emph{it} quickly.
>> then detex gives:
>>       Test  a footnote  it quickly.
>> but detex -l gives:
>>       Test   it quickly.
>
> Probably this is on purpose?
>
> In TeX mode it does not know what \footnote does, so assumes it
> creates more or less the text that is contained in the argument, like
>        \it
> or something.
>
> In LaTeX mode it knows that \footnote creates something which
> is out of the running text, so it removes the text, as it does *NOT*
> belong to the running text.
>
> I consider this behaviour correct.
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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