File wordcount: counts only current file, and does not count \input files (the only one that doesn't).Document wordcount (more accurate): more accurate version of Document wordcount, but takes longer and requires generation of a log file containing a line for every character in the output.
Compile latex file into word code#
Compile latex file into word how to#
This one will likely overestimate the word count, so (to reiterate the earlier point) these methods are approximations only and you as the user must decide how to interpret the results.
The one command that uses wordcount.tex only works on the entire document and requires generating a log file that grows larger as the document gets longer. However, it is likely to underestimate the wordcount most of the time. Most of the provided commands use TeXcount, as it is the quicker and more lenient program. However, this package provides several methods of estimating the word count using tools that come with a TeX Live distribution, such as TeXcount and wordcount.tex. Given the nature of LaTeX, it is practically impossible to get an accurate word count for any non-trivial document. See this on atom.io latex-wordcount Table of contents