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diff --git a/paper/lua-filters/wordcount/README.md b/paper/lua-filters/wordcount/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45efc2f --- /dev/null +++ b/paper/lua-filters/wordcount/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# wordcount + +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. |