Latex-wc
Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projects
Details
- External ID
- 46865138
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Latex-wc
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5316711590296496
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I was revising my proposal defense and kept feeling like I was repeating the same term. In a typical LaTeX project split across many .tex files, it’s awkward to get a quick, clean word-frequency view without gluing everything together or counting LaTeX commands/math as “words”.So I built latex-wc, a small Python CLI that:- extracts tokens from LaTeX while ignoring common LaTeX “noise” (commands, comments, math, refs/cites, etc.)- can take a single .tex file or a directory and recursively scan all *.tex files- prints a combined report once (total words, unique words, top-N frequencies)Fastest way to try it is `uvx latex-wc [path]` (file or directory). Feedback welcome, especially on edge cases where you think the heuristic filters are too aggressive or not aggressive enough.
Enrichment
- Theme
- learning and exam preparation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- word count tool for latex projects
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Parsing LaTeX to strip formatting commands, math environments, and tokenize remaining words for frequency counts is a standard text parsing task.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: texcount (TeX Live default tool), detex with wc pipeline
Concerns raised: Missing source code repository link, Missing project documentation/link
Competitors
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