Kayvan A Sylvan wrote: > > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:46:38PM -0500, Mark Hansel wrote: > > > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/tex/ > > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/tex/deTeX-2.6.README > > > > (tar.gz here): http://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/util/TeX/ > > > > However, this does not do what you want. (My interest was > piqued by Matej > > Cepel's response.) The program strips latex commands and all the '\' > > characters, but does not stip meta information, as required for an > > accurate word count. (Maybe there a command line options > that get that job > > done and maybe it does the right thing with a pure latex > file. But it does > > not do the right thing with a lyx file.) > > Of course. It's detex, not deLyX. > > Proper operation would be to export to LaTeX and then run detex. >
Lyx 1.1.6 has the operation File->export->ASCII. Why not do that and then use wc on the resulting file? Joe
