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@@ -27,16 +27,23 @@ The <i>latexcount</i> script does the same sort of job, in one
easily configured (see documentation inside the script).
<i>Winedt</i> (see <a href="FAQ-editors.html">editors and shells</a>)
provides this functionality direct in the Windows environment.
-<p/>Simply stripping (La)TeX markup isn&rsquo;t entirely reliable, however:
-that markup itself may contribute typeset words, and this could be a
-problem. The <i>wordcount</i> package
+<p/><i>TeXcount</i> also 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
+ <a href="http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html">package home page</a>.
+
+Even quite sophisticated stripping of (La)TeX markup can never be
+entirely reliable, however: that markup itself may contribute typeset
+words, and this could be a problem. The <i>wordcount</i> 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
-accurate automatic counting as you can get.
+accurate automatic counting as you can get, if it works for you.
<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>detex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex.zip">support/detex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/detex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/detex/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>wordcount</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount.zip">macros/latex/contrib/wordcount</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>detex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/support/detex.zip">support/detex</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/support/detex/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>latexcount.pl</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivesupport/latexcount/latexcount.pl">support/latexcount/latexcount.pl</a>
+<dt><tt><i>TeXcount</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/support/texcount.zip">support/texcount</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/support/texcount/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>wordcount</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount.zip">macros/latex/contrib/wordcount</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount/">browse the directory</a>)
</dl>
<p/>
<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wordcount">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wordcount</a>