Timeline for Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

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Oct 1, 2022 at 2:20	history	edited	barbara beeton	CC BY-SA 4.0	updated UK TeX FAQ name to TeX FAQ
Feb 5, 2022 at 4:08	comment	added	MadyYuvi		But in the documentation, the author was mentioned that `TEXcount may be asked to count the number of letters/characters (not including spaces` any suggestion on this? Please
Feb 5, 2022 at 2:39	history	edited	barbara beeton	CC BY-SA 4.0	updated UK TeX FAQ link
S Nov 9, 2020 at 14:59	history	suggested	mloning	CC BY-SA 4.0	Fix texcount link
Nov 9, 2020 at 14:10	review	Suggested edits
S Nov 9, 2020 at 14:59
S Apr 29, 2017 at 9:45	history	edited	TeXnician	CC BY-SA 3.0	detex: fixed broken link
S Apr 29, 2017 at 9:45	history	suggested	edison23	CC BY-SA 3.0	detex: fixed broken link, added package where it can be found
Apr 29, 2017 at 9:36	review	Suggested edits
S Apr 29, 2017 at 9:45
Jan 24, 2017 at 21:20	comment	added	gktscrk		Texcount is the best in my opinion; I find the usability superb compared to some others I have tried. The detailed breakdown (of how many words) per (sub(sub))section is especially useful. +1 for mentioning it to the commenter and response.
S May 5, 2016 at 18:48	history	suggested	Clément	CC BY-SA 3.0	Updated link to wordcount
May 5, 2016 at 18:39	review	Suggested edits
S May 5, 2016 at 18:48
S Jan 25, 2016 at 18:16	history	suggested	alko989	CC BY-SA 3.0	Updated the link for latexcount.pl
Jan 25, 2016 at 17:59	review	Suggested edits
S Jan 25, 2016 at 18:16
Jul 31, 2015 at 13:26	comment	added	Michahell		Make sure to run texcount.pl FROM the folder where your .tex files reside, otherwise you get these errors: `!!! File not found: <filename> in [./] !!!` Of course you don't have to copy files to your latex dir but just run it from there :)
Jan 2, 2014 at 19:56	comment	added	Jeff		@ChrisH yes, that's fine, and I wouldn't consider that an inline citation (such as APA or MLA, as opposed to Vancouver style). my comment was specifically directed at those who use inline citations.
Jan 2, 2014 at 9:51	comment	added	Chris H		@Jeff in my field inline references are a number, either in square brackets or superscripted, so are neither here nor there in assessing word count. Occasionally we might write out "... as Smith and Jones proposed in 1987 [1]..." but that's quite rare - the total words added by cite commands in a long review would be a few tens.
Jan 2, 2014 at 0:56	comment	added	Jeff		@ChrisH in my experience, it excludes the bibliography only; i don't think i've seen any guidelines that exclude inline references. YMMV.
Jan 1, 2014 at 16:27	comment	added	Chris H		yet another caveat with texcount - it doesn't understand packages such as `acronym` which can cause quite a lot of expansion. It also doesn't include 2nd level `\input`s. So misses all my big tables and their captions, tablenotes etc.
Jan 1, 2014 at 16:25	comment	added	Chris H		@Jeff though quite often word limits exclude the references.
Nov 28, 2012 at 1:27	comment	added	Jeff		another caveat with texcount: it works off the raw tex file, so it will ignore any inline references placed using bibtex. this makes it worthless for most academic articles.
Jul 17, 2012 at 9:56	comment	added	Seamus		If you use `texcount` you'll want to run it with options like `-inc -incbib -sum` to get a more accurate total.
Sep 28, 2010 at 16:33	comment	added	Malabarba		Do these methods ignore all the words inside math environments?
Jul 29, 2010 at 11:19	comment	added	Willie Wong		Just want to address my previous comment: the author got back to me and it will be fixed in the next version (2.3)
Jul 29, 2010 at 7:37	vote	accept	Vivi
Jul 29, 2010 at 1:01	comment	added	Willie Wong		texcount is pretty neat, especially the friendly online interface. One caveat: it recognizes align, equation, [ ], and $ as defining math environments (and possibly more). But it somehow misses align*.
Jul 29, 2010 at 0:52	history	answered	ShreevatsaR	CC BY-SA 2.5

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