This section here is just as a little reminder. Since having decided to write my PhD thesis in Latex, Some useful pages and commands are collected in this section. Most of you already know them ( i am sure about that).
How to count words in Latex: England has an upper limit of words for you thesis (rather than a number of pages as for instance in germany). While in word it is rather simple to find out amount of words written, in latex some commands need to be used.
The simplest method is to strip out the (La)TeX markup, and to count what’s left. On a Unix-like system, this may be done using detex and the built-in wc:
detex <filename> | wc
There you get three different numbers, for example
162 889 5926
The first numbers stands for the lines, the second indicates the amount of words while the last number says how much charachters you used in the document.
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