When using TeXcount on the following MWE \multicolumn macro is counted as a word and I get:
Words in text: 6
What can I do to avoid this behavior and get the correct word count?
\documentclass{article}
%TC:group table 0 1
%TC:group tabular 1 1
%TC:macro \specialcell [0,text]
\newcommand{\specialcell}[3][c]{%
\begin{tabular}[#1]{@{}#2@{}}#3\end{tabular}}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{lr}
\multicolumn{2}{c}{word1 word2} \\
word3 & \specialcell[t]{l}{word4\\word5} \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}