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In a 1980 typing class, a 'word' (as in WPM) was defined as 5 characters
typed without spelling errors. At the time that is how anyone paid by the
word got paid: Total characters divided by 5 - errors detected. = paid
words. And we used line length and lines per page to calculate total
characters, not actually counting them. That is, on a Pica typewriter: 60
characters per row * 28 rows per page * 20 pages * 32 lines per page =
33600 words.


On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 10:25 AM W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. <
robert.funnell@mcgill.ca> wrote:

Chris -

Were your asterisks separated by spaces? My impression is that any
character(s) delimited by white space will be counted as a word.

- Robert

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From: Chris J. <rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com>
Sent: March 25, 2023 11:00
To: lo user help <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Cc: Chris Johnson <rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer word counts.

I've known for a while now that LO Writer's words counts and MS Word
counts are close but not the same. I was entering an asterisked scene
break just now and noticed the word count increased by three. A little
experimenting revealed that Writer counted three asterisks as words.
This would account for some of the differing word counts between the
two. I've noticed it happening in other areas I haven't narrowed down yet.


What all exactly does LO Writer count as words? To a story writer words
counts mean something.


Thank you.


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