latex-wordcount
Latest changes:
- 2023-05-16: Updated to work with Python 3.11
Credit / License
Basic part of the script is from Stuart Curtis - latexwordcount.
It is therefore under the same license:
This code is released under the GPLv2 license allowing its free use, modification and distribution.
See the license file for more information.
Purpose
Counts number of words in a LaTeX file.
Just run the script with a tex-file as argument:
python wordcount.py file.tex
Word count
Counted as text:
- normal text
- headers
Not counted as words:
- references (\ref, \cite)
- header, footer
Known Bugs
- Doesn't count word if adjacent to backslash (word\normalsize is not counted)
- Bold, italic and underlined words are not counted (\textbf{word} is not counted)
- Counts commands that begin '{' as words
- Raises error if $ and $$ occur in a single word