[OS X TeX] How to count number of words in TEXSHOP

[Adam M. Goldstein]

I know that the original question was about TeXShop, but I do recall  
that there have been a variety of discussions on this list concerning  
word counts by using a variety of other tools and methods, so the OP  
might want to follow up with a search of the list.

Adam

On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:04 PM, cfrees at imapmail.org wrote:

> On Fri 13th Mar, 2009 at 17:29, Peter C. Lichtner seems to have  
> written:
>
>> Edit->Statistics really doesn't work. It includes things like  
>> \usepackage etc. It would be nice if one could get the word count  
>> for a selected portion of the text and not the whole document.
>
> Actually, it filters a good deal out (including \usepackage) so that
> doesn't get counted. There is a service available for Mac OS X (called
> WordService) which will give a word count for a selected portion of
> text in a Service-aware application such as TeX hop.
>
> - cfr
>
>> ...Peter
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>
>>> On  12 Mar, 2009, at 16:17, Akshay Gulati wrote:
>>> I've started a new thread with your question.
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I tried to figure out my self, but was not sucessfull, how can we  
>>>> count number of words in TEXSHOP
>>> Edit -> Statistics...
>>> Best,
>>> Axel
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