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+# wordcount
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+This filter counts the words in the body of a document (omitting
+metadata like titles and abstracts), including words in code.
+It should be more accurate than `wc -w` run directly on a
+Markdown document, since the latter will count markup
+characters, like the `#` in front of an ATX header, or
+tags in HTML documents, as words.
+
+To run it, `pandoc --lua-filter wordcount.lua myfile.md`.
+The word count will be printed to stdout.