@DavidCarlisle OK, now what do I do to delete all the blank lines and leading/trailing whitespace?
@DavidCarlisle I'm starting with trying to remove blank lines, but this isn't working yet: texcount -sub=section \jobname.tex | grep "Section" | sed -e 's/+.*//' | sed -e '/^$/d' > 'count.txt'
@Gnintendo Maybe you should start with telling what you're trying to achieve? Where do blank lines come from and why are you trying to remove them? All this seems vaguely unrelated to word counting...
@PauloCereda I'm okay I think, I had a really good dinner with friends (all being mathematiciens including both my supervisors etc.) in a really good restaurant
if there are no macros in the document then this appear to give the word count for \section{abc} if there are any macros hiding the words texcount doesn't seem to return any useful numbers.
The original purpose of PDF was to represent printed documents, and there was no explicit way of showing a space character. With modern developments around PDF, people are interested in things like automatic reflow for small screens and structural information for document processing or interfacin...
@Gnintendo The problem is that all the spaces in \lipsum are already set as non-active characters when the package is loaded. You'd have to rescan the tokens to convert them to active characters.
@tohecz Right, I didn't know that. Thanks. The problem is, I only want to write a simple document for my exercises so it looks quite neat, or better than Word documents. But there is a lot to learn about LaTeX!
@Gigili No, egreg means that algorithm is a package suitable for writing... well, algorithms in general. :) Math mode should not be used for that purpose. :)
I found this page with some examples:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Algorithms_and_Pseudocode
I'm wondering which one to use. Any suggestions? I'm using other packages too so whichever is less likely to interfere with them is better for me.
@PauloCereda I don't know why but I just got notified of this comment of yours in my inbox and needed to refresh my browser to see it here. Sorry if I sounded impolite.
@PauloCereda Well, I used {amsmath}, should I use {algorithm} instead to get better outputs?
@egreg: I did sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/bibtex/bib/local to change the permission as you had asked me to. But, nothing seems to have changed.
@Gigili \bf is a declaration, opposed to \textbf, which is a command, that's why everything is set to bold after it. You can group it inside braces, or use \textbf. And \bf is a deprecated obsolete declaration, prefer \bfseries instead, or its command equivalent \textbf{my bold text here}. :)
\begin{align*}
\text{\[A\] IF } HALT(x,x) \text{ GOTO } A\\
&\Downarrow (counter(x))\\
\text{\[A\] IF } HALT(counter(x),counter(x)) \text{ GOTO } A\\
\end{align*}
I got this error:
! LaTeX Error: Bad math environment delimiter.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.84 \end{align*}
?
I found this page with some examples:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Algorithms_and_Pseudocode
I'm wondering which one to use. Any suggestions? I'm using other packages too so whichever is less likely to interfere with them is better for me.
