[OS X TeX] texcount

Nathan Paxton napaxton at fas.harvard.edu
Mon Feb 23 18:46:33 CET 2009


	When i try this, I get the following error: "/Users/nathanpaxton/ 
Library/TeXShop/Engines/texcount.engine does not have the executable  
bit set."

	What does that mean?

Best,
-Nathan
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On 23 Feb 2009, at 12:19 PM, Daniel Becker wrote:

> Hallo -
>
> I just found out that MacTeX / TeXLive 2008 contains the command  
> "texcount" that can be used to count words of a LaTeX-file. It can  
> handle included files and produces an html-file with its results.
>
> I think that it works much better than "detex" that is used in  
> TeXShop internally for the Edit -> Statistics Menu-Item
>
> Below you can find an "TeXShop-Engine" that counts the words of  
> your .tex-file and produces two html-files with the results. And  
> opens them.
>
> Thought this might be interesting for others who need to count  
> words....
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> Content of my .engine file in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ 
> texcount.engine:
>
>
> #!/bin/tcsh
>
> set path= ($path /usr/texbin /usr/local/bin)
> set filename = "$1"
> set htmlname = "${filename:r}-texcount.html"
> set htmlname2 = "${filename:r}-texcount-short.html"
>
> # all details
> # run texcount and produce an html-file with the result
> texcount -html -inc -v "$1" > "$htmlname"
> #open the html-file
> open "$htmlname"
>
> # only the counts
> # run texcount and produce an html-file with the result
> texcount -html -inc -v0 "$1" > "$htmlname2"
> #open the html-file
> open "$htmlname2"
>
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