A live wordcount for LaTeX.

This is perfectly obvious, but only struck me recently. TeXCount will count words in your LaTeX document from the shell: texcount file.tex. But it’s a waste of time to have to refresh it; and in word processors, there’s a live count. Well, TeXCount runs fast enough that one can watch the output. If you’re running something like i3 or tmux, you can put the single line output of watch "texcount indispensability-text.tex | sed -n 3p" in a small part of the screen.

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• J.P. Loo (13 septembre 2025): Miscellaneous drafts not yet uploaded.