Sam Miller

I found this nifty tip today while trying to count the words in a paper I am submitting to a conference:

detex paper.tex | wc -w

It removes all the tex formatting and counts the remaining whitespaced words. I suppose it isn’t exact but it’s pretty quick and gives you a basic idea of how many words your paper has for those conferences who don’t adhere to a specific page limit.

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