How do I count words in a paragraph or the whole text?

[Dr_Joachim]

To determine the number of words and characters in an paper, what is the function for this?
Thanks!

[quachpas]

Hello!

This is possible (with limits) using wordometer. See the topic on character counting for more details.

Character count of body text?

I’ve been using wordometer for word count. It does character count as well. There are some things it can’t count properly. Look at some open issues on GitHub. A follow up question: what is your use case? Do you need the count in your rendered document, or outside just as a metric? I think at the moment the more accurate way to go about a whole document character count will be to use an external script after rendering a PDF. So, have a toggle to disable some things you don’t want counted (page…

I have also changed your question to “How do I count words in a paragraph or the whole text?”, thank you!

[Dr_Joachim]

Thanks a lot! Very helpful hint.

[Dr_Joachim]

I finally got it, Thank you for your help! Solution button was finally hit!
;-)