Counts words in a Latex file.
That is: Latex commands are ignored.
Example:
Prompt> texcount -sum myfile.tex
FILE: myfile.tex
Sum count: 2373
Words in text: 2261
Words in headers: 97
Words in float captions: 4
Number of headers: 25
Number of floats: 0
Number of math inlines: 11
Number of math displayed: 0
To check what it is doing:
Prompt> texcount -v -sum myfile.tex