Re: Text processor

[Peter Finderup Lund <firefly diku dk>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Robin Miller wrote:

> 6) A WORD COUNT FEATURE! NO PROFESSIONAL WRITER CAN LIVE
> WITHOUT ONE!!!

I am curious.  I agree that it is necessary, but by which rules do you
propose that it count?

I remember a review of three top-notch word processors in a leading
British computer magazine in which they actually tested the word count
feature and found that they all got different results on the same piece,
all of them different from the count one got using the magazines official
rules.  They had a side bar explaining their rules and how each magazine
typically had their own rules.

-Peter

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