Re: counting the words in a TeX document

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 8/7/06, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >> ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/misc/xii.tex
> >>
> >>
> yeah, a famous tex master piece!
> >> But of course, you will not write anything like this in an abstract
> >> :-)
> >>
> hm, let me provide a word counter for that one before you get the idea to ask for it -)

Whom did you have in mind? I would never have thought about asking
such a question. ;)

> \starttext
>
> \setbox0\vbox\bgroup  % \tracingall -)
> \forgetall \nohyphens \hsize1mm
> \let\bye\egroup \bgroup
> \let~\catcode~`76~`A13~`F1~`j00~`P2jdefA71F~`7113jdefPALLF
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> \egroup
>
> \newcounter\NOfLines
> \beginshapebox \unvcopy0 \endshapebox
> \reshapebox{\doglobal\increment\NOfLines}
>
> \getnoflines{\ht0}
>
> lines: \the\noflines
> words: \NOfLines\par
>
> % \unvbox0
>
> \stoptext

(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

Thanks to the magicians,
    Mojca