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I need to count words in a paper. The journal I am writing for suggests to use wordcount.tex (and the related wordcount.sh). I am using TeX Live on a Mac and I could not find these files; I found them on the CTAN.

Now my question is: how should I install these files? Or where should I place them within the TeX Directory Structure?

Werner
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Enrico
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Download the package at from CTAN (direct download link), unpack it, extract its contents (wordcount.tex and wordcount.sh) and copy it in the same folder as your document. Let's assume this document is name test.tex, and that it is in the folder /home/work/.

Launch a console, go to /home/work/ using the command cd, i.e., do

cd /home/work/

Then give to your script wordcount.sh the right to be executed:

chmod +x wordcount.sh

You have to do all of the above only once. Once all of this is set up, a simple

./wordcount.sh test.tex

should gives you what you want. Make sure that you can compile your document test.tex without errors, otherwise wordcount.sh might not work.

If you are confused by Mac's terminal or uneasy with it, you could ask at https://apple.stackexchange.com/ or try apple support.

You might also want to compare wordcount's output with other software's count. For this, have a look at Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

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Clément
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    Yes, this is what has been suggested by the help desk of the journal. But I wonder whether I can place the files in some general folder in order to use them with any document. – Enrico May 05 '16 at 18:55