I want to have a draft of a document I am writing, with the line numbers aside. I looked at some options like lineno, but this way it skips some lines. Is there a simple workaround or another package to do this?
[Tex/LaTex] How to number all lines in a draft
line-numbering
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The last annotation in the .aux file made by lineno is of the form
\@LN{251}{5}
where 251 is the global number of counted lines and 5 is the last page number. Of course this will depend on the document.
If you say
\AtEndDocument{\typeout{Total number of lines: \thelinenumber}}
in your preamble, you'll see a message such as
Total number of lines: 251
in the log file (and on the terminal window).
You can insert a blank line that will be marked using a macro
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno,lipsum}
\newcommand{\markblankline}{\par\mbox{}\par}
\begin{document}
\linenumbers
\lipsum[1]
\markblankline
\lipsum[2]
\markblankline
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}
Using such explicit blank-line-numbering seems extreme. However, your document may contain a whole host of formatting options that might not interact well with lineno as it stands.
If your document contains straight-forward text, perhaps the following may be of use:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno,lipsum,everyhook}
\newcommand{\markblankline}{\par\mbox{}\par}
\begin{document}
\linenumbers
\lipsum[1]
\PushPreHook{par}{\hspace*{-\parindent}\makebox[\linewidth]{}\\\hspace*{\parindent}}
\lipsum[2-3]
\end{document}
The above code provides the same output by appending a blank line with every issue of \par thanks to the everyhook package.
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The Number every line of pages question was very similar to this.
The code I posted Number every line of pages, appears to solve this problem and hence the reason for posting this short snippet here. As the code does not box or unbox paragraphs, displayed math can be used.