Count the words per line

Count the words per line

["H. Özoguz"]

I am setting with grid-set, and I am wondering, if there is a 
possibility to count the number of words in the lines (not for each 
single line, but in average over all lines). That would be helpful to 
get a perfectly readably book (words per row is one of these 
readability-measures). That tool could ignore hyphenated words at the 
end of a line, or count it with 0.5, or whatever.

Thanks
Huseyin
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Re: Count the words per line

[Philipp Gesang]

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Hey Huseyin,

···<date: 2012-12-14, Friday>···<from: "H. Özoguz">···

> I am setting with grid-set, and I am wondering, if there is a
> possibility to count the number of words in the lines (not for each
> single line, but in average over all lines).

take a look at this:

    t-wordsperline.mkvi       http://pastebin.com/ZjEY1w1p
    wordsperline.lua          http://pastebin.com/YW2R97Cm

Usage:

    \usemodule[wordsperline]
    \starttext

      \startlinestats
        \dorecurse{42}{%
          \input knuth\par
          \input ward\par
          \input tufte\par
          \input zapf\par
        }
      \stoplinestats

    \stoptext

(Works best with the --silent flag!)

>                                              That would be helpful
> to get a perfectly readably book (words per row is one of these
> readability-measures). That tool could ignore hyphenated words at
> the end of a line, or count it with 0.5, or whatever.

Hyphenated words are counted as half a word on both lines so each
word amounts to exactly one. This does not account for more
complex horizontal material like boxes which may contain words.
Also the word model is extremely simplistic, so some kinds of
punctuation and effects like letter spacing can distort the
values. Thus depending on the content of your document the
figures might not be accurate; ymmv.

(Took a bit longer because initially I planned on placing the
stats in the inner and outer margin for each line. Turns out this
can’t be done with simple (Lua) means in Context because it would
interfere with the margin mechanism. So I had to scrap the first
approach and rewrote it to display stats only at the end of the
document.)

Regards
Philipp


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