CTAN has a new package: texcount

[CTAN Announcements]

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: TeXcount
Author's name: Einar Andreas Rødland
Location on CTAN: /support/texcount
Summary description: Perl script counting words in LaTeX documents
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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TeXcount.pl is a Perl script that counts the number of words in the 
text of LaTeX files. It has rules for handling most of the common 
macros and provieds colour coded output indicating which parts have 
been counted. Go to
  http://folk.uio.no/einarro/Comp/texwordcount.html
for more information or to access the script online as a web service.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texcount
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texcount
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .