(unless you write a language with lots of non-latin letters)

I sometimes use International Phonetic Alphabet. I guess I’ll see how it handles that.

–IP

You, and others who come across the same question of counting the words in LaTeX documents, may be interested in trying out the LaTeX word-count script I made.

http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html

You can either download and run the script itself (requires Perl) or use the web-interface (requires only Internet access and a web browser).

I think it should be quite accurate (unless you write a language with lots of non-latin letters), and it does output the details of the parsing so you can assess the accuracy quite easily.

Einar

Regarding TeX, I use TeXShop. There’s a rather good book called “TeX for the Impatient” which is good, although I can’t now remember if it’s for LaTeX or PlainTeX.

Take care.
IP

i hope all is well with you? I have been thinking of you much latly and i have realised its been ages since we’ve met up. id really love to hve some catch up time and talk logic and science with you again, i do miss it!

on a related to post note: do you know a good free version of laTex for the mac? getting to the point now where i am writing papers (eek) and such and i really should invest the time to Tex.

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