[texhax] counting words

[tom sgouros]

Oleg Katsitadze <olegkat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:09:39PM -0400, Tom Sgouros wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a path to making a
> > macro that will print the first 100 words of an argument, and not choke
> > if there are only 75?
> 
> See the code below.  It's in plain TeX syntax, but I hope
> you can adapt it to LaTeX.  Please note that it does not
> always work correctly when there are space(s) at the
> beginning / end of input.


Thank you very much.  You're a prince among men.

 -tom

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