CTAN has a new package: texcount

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TeXcount Author's name: Einar Andreas Rødland Location on CTAN: /support/texcount Summary description: Perl script counting words in LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text:

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TeXcount.pl is a Perl script that counts the number of words in the text of LaTeX files. It has rules for handling most of the common macros and provieds colour coded output indicating which parts have been counted. Go to http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html for more information or to access the script online as a web service.

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This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texcount . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texcount (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .