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.. _docs_more_counting:
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Word and Text Counts
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This is an overview of how words and other counts of your text are performed. The counting rules
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should be relatively standard, and are comparable to Libre Office Writer rules.
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The counts provided in the app on the raw text are meant to be approximate. For more accurate
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counts, you need to build your manuscript in the **Manuscript Tool** and check the counts on the
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generated preview.
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Text Word Counts and Stats
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These are the rules for the main counts available for for each document in a project.
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For all counts, the following rules apply.
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#. Short (–) and long (—) dashes are considered word separators.
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#. Any line starting with ``%`` or ``@`` is ignored.
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#. Trailing white spaces are ignored, including line breaks.
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#. Leading ``>`` and trailing ``<`` are ignored with any spaces next to them.
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#. Valid shortcodes and other commands wrapped in brackets ``[]`` are ignored.
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#. In-line Markdown syntax in text paragraphs is treated as part of the text.
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After the above preparation of the text, the following counts are available.
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**Character Count**
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The character count is the sum of characters per line, including leading and in-text white space
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characters, but excluding trailing white space characters. Shortcodes in the text are not
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included, but Markdown codes are. Only headings and text are counted.
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**Word Count**
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The words count is the sum of blocks of continuous character per line separated by any number of
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white space characters or dashes. Only headings and text are counted.
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**Paragraph Count**
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The paragraph count is the number of text blocks separated by one or more empty line. A line
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consisting only of white spaces is considered empty.
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Manuscript Counts
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These are the rules for the counts available for a manuscript in the **Manuscript Tool**. The rules
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have been tuned to agree with LibreOffice Writer, but will vary slightly depending on the content
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of your text. LibreOffice Writer also counts the text in the page header, which the **Manuscript
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Tool** does not.
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The content of each line is counted after all formatting has been processed, so the result will be
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more accurate than the counts for text documents elsewhere in the app. The following rules apply:
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#. Short (–) and long (—) dashes are considered word separators.
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#. Leading and trailing white spaces are generally included, but paragraph breaks are not.
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#. Hard line breaks within paragraph are considered white space characters.
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#. All formatting codes are ignored, including shortcodes, commands and Markdown.
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#. Scene and section separators are counted.
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#. Comments and meta data lines are counted after they are formatted.
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#. Headers are counted after they are formatted with custom formats.
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The following counts are available:
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**Headings**
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The number of headings in the manuscript.
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**Paragraphs**
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The number of body text paragraphs in the manuscript.
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**Words**
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The number of words in the manuscript, including any comments and meta data text.
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**Words in Text**
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The number of words in body text paragraphs, excluding all other text.
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**Words in Headings**
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The number of words in headings, including inserted formatting like chapter numbers, etc.
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**Characters**
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The number of characters in all lines, including any comments and meta data text. Paragraph
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breaks are not counted, but in-paragraph hard line breaks are.
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**Character in Text**
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The number of characters in body text paragraphs. Paragraph breaks are not counted, but
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in-paragraph hard line breaks are.
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**Characters in Headings**
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The number of characters in headings.
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**Character in Text, No Spaces**
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The number of characters in body text paragraphs considered part of a word or punctuation. That
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is, white space characters are not counted.
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**Character in Headings, No Spaces**
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The number of characters in headings considered part of a word or punctuation. That is, white
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space characters are not counted.
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