For all purposes that matter (payment, thesis limits, etc.) doesn't the 5
characters per word rule still count? I guess if they are instead counting
the word boundaries these days that could be 5, but if you submitted an
invoice for it, 4 is correct, or if you're trying to achieve a word count
for
A simple experiment shows that LO writer considers a new word to have begun
when any character occurs after a whitespace character. Do you disagree
with this algorithm? I certainly don't. It's straightforward, easy to
understand and unambiguous.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:36 PM Dave Howorth
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:57:55 +0100
Krunose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it ok for LO to find five words in 'This is < a word.' as
I'd have thought the answer was either 4 or 6 depending on whether you
ignore '<' or pronounce 'less than'. :)
> https://www.countofwords.com/
>
> finds only four. Don't
Hi,
is it ok for LO to find five words in 'This is < a word.' as
https://www.countofwords.com/
finds only four. Don't know how that reflects on this like 'This is 4
words' and not sur so on. It's hard to anticipate every possible variant
- is that the reason?
Is there more information about
