Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

Am 01.02.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Jörg Weger :

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