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The journal I am submitting to requires a count of the words on the title page. I can of course run texcount on the .tex document and put the number in, but it seems that I should be able to automate this.
For tables and figures (which are also required), I can simply use the totcount package. Is there something equivalent for words? Or can I store the output of texcount in such a way that I can call it on a subsequent pdflatex run?
Here is the solution using bashful. Note that you need to run latex or pdflatex using -shell-escape option
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bashful}
\pagestyle{empty}
\bash
texcount -sum -1 tmp.tex
\END
\begin{document}
This file has \emph{\bashStdout} words.
\end{document}
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texcount syntax with the macro supplied by Jake on the other question, and it works wonderfully. Yours didn't work because of \bashStdout is not recognized as a control statement. But thanks for helping me with the texcount syntax!
Mar 23, 2012 at 19:29
Here is a solution that does not require an external package:
\makeatletter\@@input|"echo `texcount -1 manuscript.tex`| cut -c1-4"\makeatother
The cut command assumes a four digit number and could be parsed more elegantly.
This command requires --shell-escape when compiling, as in:
pdflatex --shell-escape myfile.tex
\hspace{-.5ex} but maybe it depends on the parsing of texcount's output
Aug 16, 2013 at 10:32
\makeatletter\@@input|"echo texcount -q -1 -merge \jobname.tex| cut -c1-4"\makeatother
Aug 16, 2013 at 11:10
cut -d+ -f1 instead of cut -c1-4 to make the script work regardless of the number of words in the document (-d+ uses + as field delimiter, -f1 orders cut to output only the first field).