A new package has been installed at the tug.ctan.org node of CTAN and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon.
Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.
Name of contribution: latexcount Author's name: P.D. Magnus Location on CTAN: support/misc Summary description: Perl script generates word count of LaTeX documents License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The latexcount script gives a reasonably accurate count of the number of words in the main text of an article, the number of words in footnotes, and the number of words total. The list of tags that don't get counted can be added to as needed. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------