On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 at 10:45, Ms Sunetra Sarkar wrote: is there any way to get a word count of the text part from the tex file? grab the utility, `detex' from your favorite CTAN mirror (there is one below your nose ;) CTAN:/tex-archive/support/detex/ compile to generate the binary detex. And issue the command: detex <foo.tex> | wc -w will get you the number of words in foo.tex.