From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:56:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CEBD25.2060605@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CE954E.4080808@googlemail.com>
On 2/1/2015 10:06 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:
> Is the character count “wc --char <textfile>” returns with or without
> blank spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man wc” doesn’t talk about
> that.
>
> I had hoped there was a better way than to edit the result of
> “pdftotext” in my text editor or in libreoffice writer (deleting
> unnecessary carriage returns and spaces by searching for regular
> expressions) which are able to do the count I need. In fact I had hoped
> that ConTeXt was able to count the characters and spaces it renders to
> PDF (is that theoretically possible?) …
it's not too hard so maybe when i'm bored or see a good reason ..
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-01 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-01 8:31 Jörg Weger
2015-02-01 19:11 ` Aditya Mahajan
2015-02-01 21:06 ` Jörg Weger
2015-02-01 21:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-02-01 21:32 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-02-01 22:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-02-01 22:27 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-02-02 9:20 ` Keith Schultz
2015-02-02 15:39 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-02-02 16:55 ` Hans Hagen
2015-02-03 3:19 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-02-01 23:56 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-02-02 22:39 ` Jörg Weger
2015-02-02 20:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
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