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!!Option 3 - dvi2tty
As you can guess from the name, this is designed for rendering a .dvi file to a terminal (or to a file).
-The disadvantage of this is that you have to be using plain latex instead of pdflatex, so that you can generate a .dvi file. [IMHO] This
is a better approach than the previous two because LaTeX has already parsed the source files so it doesn't need to worry about tex/latex commands, but the format still has enough information to keep words intact (except where TeX has hyphenated words at the margin).
+The disadvantage of this is that you have to be using plain latex instead of pdflatex, so that you can generate a .dvi file. [IMHO] this
is a better approach than the previous two because LaTeX has already parsed the source files so it doesn't need to worry about tex/latex commands, but the format still has enough information to keep words intact (except where TeX has hyphenated words at the margin).
<verbatim>
# -w100 means format for 100 chars wide
# perl to remove punctuation so wc doesn't count them
+# and remove hyphenation at the end of lines
dvi2tty -w100 /path/to/file.dvi \
| perl -pe 's/-$// || s/$/ /; chomp; s/[-\._|]//g' | wc -w
</verbatim>
You want the <tt>dvi2tty</tt> package in Debian Sarge,
dev-tex/dvi2tty in Gentoo, or get it from
<tt>ftp://ftp.mesa.nl/pub/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-5.3.1.tar.gz</tt>
