[texworks] Wordcount

[CB]

2009/8/1 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:
>
> No, I didn't want to say that it's not worth doing. Writing a simple
> word count inside the editor is a trivial thing to do and could be
> implemented easily, esp. in the new lua engine. (Just a few
> regular/lpeg expressions would do.) You may not expect it to give
> anything accurate though.
>
> Or, as Daniel suggests, adding some shortcut to texcount or some other
> script. Hardcoding the functionality in C(?) would hardly make any
> sense.
>

Yes, that makes sense. I guess an ugly/temporary expedient might just
be to run something like texcount (which I didn't know of: thanks,
Daniel) from texworks' typeset engines config. I already do this with
bibtool to clean up my bibtex files.