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From: Keith Schultz <keithjschultz@icloud.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:20:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490612EA-4F1F-4C56-9793-F4ADD0ACD802@icloud.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E53914C-BB06-423E-9E9F-771BB1F575ED@gmail.com>

Hello All,

As a linguist, I can say that not counting words that are shorter is an absolute NO-GO
for an accurate word count and thereby character count!

See below, for a non representative proof !

> Am 01.02.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:
> 
[snip, snip]

> ConTeXt has an option to count the words (you find the result in <jobname>.words) in a document
> but words words shorter than four letters aren’t taken into account.
word length under 4 characters  :   10
word length =< 4 chars                 :   20

here you are missing a third of the words! That is 30%

regards
	Keith

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-02  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01  8:31 Jörg Weger
2015-02-01 19:11 ` Aditya Mahajan
2015-02-01 21:06   ` Jörg Weger
2015-02-01 21:12     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-02-01 21:32       ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-02-01 22:11         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-02-01 22:27           ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-02-02  9:20       ` Keith Schultz [this message]
2015-02-02 15:39         ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-02-02 16:55           ` Hans Hagen
2015-02-03  3:19             ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-02-01 23:56     ` Hans Hagen
2015-02-02 22:39       ` Jörg Weger
2015-02-02 20:45     ` Marcin Borkowski

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