[LyX/master] Unify wording for statistics

Jürgen Spitzmüller jspitzm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 15:06:05 UTC 2022


Am Mittwoch, dem 14.09.2022 um 14:21 +0200 schrieb Kornel Benko:
> > If you have one character and a blank,
> 
> Does this (for you) imply a blank is not a character?

No.

> 
> > then you have two different
> > measures:
> > 
> > One character (no blanks)
> 
> Or 'One character (not a blank)'

No, it means: We do not count blanks here.

> 
> > 2 characters (incl. blanks)
> 
> If we do not count non-blank-chars and blanks separately, we have
> problems.
> Just my 2 cent.

I am not sure what you mean. Giving two measures (including and
excluding blanks) is common in all editors I know. And these are also
the two (char) measures you normally need (either of them) when
accounting for publication rules.

> BTW, what about other non-printable chars, like LF, new page, some
> fills etc.?

They are not counted.

-- 
Jürgen
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