Re: counting the words in a TeX document

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 8/7/06, Hans Hagen wrote:
>   
>>> (I'll spare you the fun with sections for some other time,) but since
>>> you reminded me that I might have some questions left, here you have
>>> another one: how do I replace hyphens, en-dashes and em-dashes with
>>> "spaces/line breaks"?
>>>        \catcode`~=13\let~=\space
>>> does what I want, but none of the following works:
>>>        \def\-{\space}
>>>        \def-{\space}
>>>        \let\-=\space
>>>
>>>       
>> \catcode`-=\active \def-{ }
>>     
>
> I tried that one already, but it didn't work. Now I figured out that
> it was because of nesting the definitions (perhaps even some
> interference with negative numbers?), not because of wrong definition
> on itself.
>
> I'm sorry.
>
> Mojca
>
> (But my fear is that the whole problem is too complex anyway (tables,
> ....) to be solved elegantly.)
>   
i'm nearly 100% sure that you will never manage to make that working ; 
if you want to count words, you need to intercept them at the input 
stage and/or interpret the output

Hans

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