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-% $Id: faq-support.tex,v 1.5 2011/05/08 10:16:43 rf10 Exp $
+% $Id: faq-support.tex,v 1.6 2011/10/29 22:03:32 rf10 Exp rf10 $
\section{Support Packages for \TeX{}}
@@ -117,25 +117,29 @@ what's left. On a Unix-like system, this may be done using
detex <filename> | wc -w
\end{verbatim}
\end{quote}
+The technique is beguilingly simple, but it's not terribly accurate
+
The \ProgName{latexcount} script does the same sort of job, in one
``step''; being a \ProgName{perl} script, it is in principle rather
easily configured (see documentation inside the script).
-\ProgName{Winedt} (see \Qref[question]{editors and shells}{Q-editors})
-provides this functionality direct in the Windows environment.
+Several \Qref*{editors and shells}{Q-editors} offer something similar.
-\ProgName{TeXcount} also goes a long way with heuristics for counting,
+\ProgName{TeXcount} goes a long way with heuristics for counting,
starting from a \LaTeX{} file; the documentation is comprehensive, and
you may try the script on-line via the % ! line break
-\begin{wideversion}
+\begin{hyperversion}
\href{http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html}{package home page}.
-\end{wideversion}
-\begin{narrowversion}
+\end{hyperversion}
+\begin{flatversion}
package home page~(see
\URL{http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html}).
-\end{narrowversion}
-Even quite sophisticated stripping of \AllTeX{} markup can never be
-entirely reliable, however: that markup itself may contribute typeset
-words, and this could be a problem. The \Package{wordcount} package
+\end{flatversion}
+
+However, even quite sophisticated stripping of \AllTeX{} markup can
+never be entirely reliable: markup itself may contribute typeset
+words, or even consume words that appear in the text.
+
+The \Package{wordcount} package
contains a Bourne shell (i.e., typically Unix) script for running a
\LaTeX{} file with a special piece of supporting \TeX{} code, and then
counting word indications in the log file. This is probably as