Veronica Berglyd Olsen
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40 lines
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.. _a_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 compared to LibreOffice Writer rules. The counts provided in
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the app on the raw text are only meant to be approximate.
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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 headers 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 headers 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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