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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label wordcount</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>How many words have you written?</h3>
-<p/>One often has to submit a document (e.g., a paper or a dissertation)
-under some sort of constraint about its size. Sensible people set a
-constraint in terms of numbers of pages, but there are some that
-persist in limiting the numbers of words you type.
-<p/>A simple solution to the requirement can be achieved following a
-simple observation: the powers that be are unlikely to count all the
-words of a document submitted to them. Therefore, a statistical
-method can be employed: find how many words there are on a full page;
-find how many full pages there are in the document (allowing for
-displays of various sorts, this number will probably not be an
-integer); multiply the two. However, if the document to be submitted
-is to determine the success of the rest of one&#8217;s life, it takes a
-brave person to thumb their nose at authority quite so
-comprehensively&#8230;
-<p/>The simplest method is to strip out the (La)TeX markup, and to count
-what&#8217;s left. On a Unix-like system, this may be done using
-<i>detex</i> and the built-in <i>wc</i>:
-<pre>
- detex &#60;filename&#62; | wc -w
-</pre>
-The <i>latexcount</i> script does the same sort of job, in one
-&#8220;step&#8221;; being a <i>perl</i> script, it is in principle rather
-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/><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, if it works for you.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>detex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/detex.zip">support/detex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/detex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/detex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>latexcount.pl</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/latexcount/latexcount.pl">support/latexcount/latexcount.pl</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/latexcount.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>TeXcount</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texcount.zip">support/texcount</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texcount/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/texcount.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>wordcount</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount.zip">macros/latex/contrib/wordcount</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/wordcount/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/wordcount.html">catalogue entry</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>
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