Re: counting the words in a TeX document

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask how difficult it would be to count the number of
> words in a TeX/ConTeXt document. If it's too complex, please ignore
> the rest of the message.
>   
the way i do such things (and worse trickery) is using pdftotext 

you can of course use tex, but then ther ecan be generated words and so and it is insane to use tex (or adapt a tex style) for that; it may help to run with (nondestructive) 

\setupalign[nothyphenated]

anyhow, here is a script (i could not locate my normal one) 

=== wordcount.rb ===

if (file = ARGV[0]) && file && FileTest.file?(file) then
    begin
        system("pdftotext #{ARGV[0]} wc.log")
        data = IO.read("wc.log")
        data.gsub!(/\d[\.\:]*\w+/o) do ' ' end  # remove suffixes
        data.gsub!(/\d/o)           do ' ' end  # remove numbers
        data.gsub!(/\-\s+/mo)       do ' ' end  # remove hyphenation
        data.gsub!(/\-/mo)          do ' ' end  # split compound words
        data.gsub!(/[\.\,\<\>\/\?\\\|\'\"\;\:\]\{\}\{\+\=\-\_\)\(\*\&\^\%\$\#\@\!\~\`]/mo) do ' ' end
        words = data.split(/\s+/)
        count = Hash.new
        words.each do |w|
            count[w] = (count[w] || 0) + 1
        end
    rescue
        puts("some error #{$!}")
    else
        puts("words  : #{words.size}")
        puts("unique : #{count.size}")
    end
    if ARGV[1] =~ /list/ then
        puts("\n")
        count.sort.each do |k,v|
            puts("#{k} : #{v}")
        end
    end
end


usage: wc filename.pdf [list] 

it this kind of stuff is usefull, we can add it to one of the scripts that come with context 

Hans 
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