From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30099 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: counting the words in a TeX document Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:54:42 +0200 Message-ID: <44D84342.6030001@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00608050945g5f829eaeka4afdee9858c7df8@mail.gmail.com> <44D4FA91.3080808@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00608051731t1dc00da2v73ad192dedd4835c@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00608070124h2162d8ddj163fd308ca30348a@mail.gmail.com> <44D7065E.2010808@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00608071154v561ff28aq32c5446415e98657@mail.gmail.com> <44D7A8A6.1050708@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00608071431v3a097f38u86534b806896a996@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155023716 17906 80.91.229.2 (8 Aug 2006 07:55:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 08 09:55:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAMQc-0002dP-Ti for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526C41FD79; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:55:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22017-03; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C73B1FD5E; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15D21FD5E for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:54:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20351-06-2 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:54:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 927431FD5A for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:54:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 196 for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:54:45 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00608071431v3a097f38u86534b806896a996@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30099 Archived-At: 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------