Re: Wordcount routine available within LyX ?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Dienstag, 4. September 2001 09:12 schrieb Andre Poenitz:
> Is "I" a word? "i.e."? "a"? "b"? "a+b"? "a+\frac{4}{5b}"?

"i.e." are two words ("id est") and should be typed i.\,e.
A pragmatic definition of a word is:

- every letter or combination of letters which is separated against 
other letters or combination of letters with '<space>', '\<space>', '~' 
or '\,'

Of course you can start a wild linguistic debate about that (and you 
would never come to a solution, as far as I know the linguistic 
literature ;), but IMHO this simple definition is sufficient.

Regards,
Juergen

> Andre'