> Am 01.02.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Jörg Weger <joerg73....@googlemail.com>: > > 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?) …
ConTeXt has an option to count the words (you find the result in <jobname>.words) in a document but words words shorter than four letters aren’t taken into account. \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
