3.24.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

3.24.2.1 Is there any way to do a correct word count of a LaTeX document?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/534/is-there-any-way-to-do-a-correct-word-count-of-a-latex-document

Often assignments (or even papers) have a word count limit. That is not a big deal when using Word, but I don't know how to do that using LaTeX. My solution has been so far to compile the document and  ...
 

- asked by Vivi (270 votes), answered by ShreevatsaR (143 votes)

3.24.2.2 How to typeset subscript in usual text mode?

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1013/how-to-typeset-subscript-in-usual-text-mode

It's easy to make subscripts in math mode: $a_i$. 
How do I make a subscript outside math environment, likethis?
 

- asked by Pavel Shved (165 votes), answered by Stefan Kottwitz (108 votes)