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Originally Posted by davidfor
You have me intrigued about how you do this. How do you know the word count has changed or not changed? Are you keeping a copy of the count somewhere to compare the new count with and updating that when finished? Or are you running something from the command line and comparing the new calculation against the old?
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I must emphasis, the comparison is done to detect my mistakes.
I do the final stage of 'new book' processing 'a book at a time'. So I make a mental note of the word count I did as part of the initial stage - which is a bulk operation. If it doesn't change when I think it should've done, then its invariably my error - happened to me yesterday, forgot to save the final edits I'd done in Sigil.
Post 'final' changes are most often done to correct transcription errors (often times they are made by one of my colleague, all of whom are OS, they send them via email with a note as to the changes they made), so again I run CP one at a time and again I (or the colleague) sometimes make mistakes.
I guess I could automate it, but then I'd have to tell the automaton of my expectations, anyway I prefer to give my brain a bit of exercise, lest it atrophies even faster than it already is
The change in word counts I anticipate are almost invariably small (e.g. up or down a bit) or no change at all. So within the differences between the old and new algo's.
BR