[Tuglist] Re: your mail

[Ms Sunetra Sarkar]

 thanks a lot for both the responses.

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, TUGIndia wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 at 10:45, Ms Sunetra Sarkar wrote:
> 
>    is there any way to get a word count of the text part from
>    the tex file?
> 
> grab the utility, `detex' from your favorite CTAN mirror (there is
> one below your nose ;)
> 
>    CTAN:/tex-archive/support/detex/
> 
> compile to generate the binary detex.
> 
> And issue the command:
> 
>  detex <foo.tex> | wc -w
> 
> will get you the number of words in foo.tex.
> 
> 
> 
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