[OS X TeX] Word count?

[Conrad Scott]

For doing word counts of LaTeX documents I use the wordcount package  
from CTAN (see  
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/wordcount.html  
for more information etc.). CTAN also has a package latexcount (see  
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ 
latexcount.html), which looks like it should do the same.

These should be a lot more accurate than using "detex | wc -w",  
especially if you have lots of home-grown macros that generate lumps of  
text (as I do). I've no idea what these will do with equations though.

Hope this helps,

// Conrad

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