Word Counting

[mad_jaks]

Now, on the face of it, I know this sounds like a really lame thing to be posting about BUT

An update for Open Office appeared the other day and

this ? now *actually* gets counted as one word!

As do hyphenated words.

(It never used to do that before.)

I am sooooooooo happy :D

Comments

[donutsweeper]

after all the lfws word count headache that news makes me very happy

[mad_jaks]

Isn't it good? :D of course it still sees my favourite punctuation - the dash - as a word (because of the space each side) but that's no biggie *g*

[donutsweeper]

but if you're using the dash as a way of showing interruption:

"Jack, you don't understand-"

"No, I don't."

Would it count it then as an extra word? (like googledoc does?)

[mad_jaks]

"understand -" is 2
"understand-" is 1

[donutsweeper]

well that's just excellent! And makes me happy. Maybe it'll result in less stress next lfws round! Although, maybe they won't do another exact word count one again right away