Do you know how can I count the words without footnotes? I saw that there was a general solution for counting words without specific environments but that seems very cumbersome. I was wondering if there wasn't anything easier. I have used the statistics tab to see the word count and it includes all my footnotes; however, many journals in my field have a word limit for the body of the text and then a separate word limit for footnotes).
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[Tex/LaTex] Word count without footnotes
word count
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You can use texcount to count the words. It automatically produces subcounts for the sections.
Here's a new macro that calls texcount, extracts the subcount for the current section, and then inserts the word count into the document. It requires write18 to be enabled, and texcount must be in your path (or you have to include the full path to the executable in the macro).
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\wordcount{
\immediate\write18{texcount -sub=section \jobname.tex | grep "Section" | sed -e 's/+.*//' | sed -n \thesection p > 'count.txt'}
(\input{count.txt}words)}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}
In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphics elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout. The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text by Cicero with words altered, added and removed that make it nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin.
\wordcount
\section{Main Stuff}
Even though "lorem ipsum" may arouse curiosity because of its resemblance to classical Latin, it is not intended to have meaning. Where text is comprehensible in a document, people tend to focus on the textual content rather than upon overall presentation, so publishers use lorem ipsum when displaying a typeface or design elements and page layout in order to direct the focus to the publication style and not the meaning of the text. In spite of its basis in Latin, use of lorem ipsum is often referred to as greeking, from the phrase "it's all Greek to me," which indicates that this is not meant to be readable text.
\wordcount
\section{Conclusion}
Today's popular version of lorem ipsum was first created for Aldus Corporation's first desktop publishing program Aldus PageMaker in the mid-1980s for the Apple Macintosh. Art director Laura Perry adapted older forms of the lorem text from typography samples — it was, for example, widely used in Letraset catalogs in the 1960s and 1970s (anecdotes suggest that the original use of the "Lorem ipsum" text was by Letraset, which was used for print layouts by advertising agencies as early as the 1970s.) The text was frequently used in PageMaker templates.
\wordcount
\end{document}
Based on the (older) copy of TeXShop source I have here, it uses detex to do this, and it's not installed in my copy of BasicTeX. You can install the detex packages using TeX Live Utility by switching to the "Packages" tab and searching for detex in the list. Right-click on detex and choose "Install Selected Packages" from the contextual menu (or use the corresponding item from the Actions menu).
Best Answer
If you (re)define
\footnoteas followsthe words in footnotes will not appear. Then you can choose a suitable tool, e.g. http://felix-cat.com/tools/wordcount/ to count words in the obtained PDF file. Of course, if your journals suggest another tools, they will be preferable.