[accessiblelinux] word counts
- From: <aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:45:42 -0400
greetings,
I have a question about wordcount in linux. I've been using gedit and I've
noticed that words with apostrophes (') get counted as two words.
example:
if I type
"I don't know."
into gedit and go to the last entry in the tools menu (document statistics, I
think) it says there are four words in the document ("I [1] + don't [1] + know
[1]." = 3). I looked through the preference settings and tried googling the
issue, but can't find anything on if it's possible to alter this behavior.
does anyone know if there is a setting that can modify this behavior? Or, is
there a command-line tool that can count the words in a textfile?
I know open office has a word count feature as well, but at the moment orca
speach inOO is spotty with my system. I am running Ubuntu8.04 LTS and plan to
upgrade to lucid when it's officially released.
thanks:-)
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