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?) …
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