Word count feature

[icearch]

Does Sigil have word count feature?

Or is there any plugin can do that?

Or any other software can count word in epub?

[theducks]

Indirectly.
Tools: Reports: Words. The summary is at the bottom

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by theducks

Indirectly.
Tools: Reports: Words. The summary is at the bottom

Might I be so nasty as to point out that this is the Sigil forum not the calibre ebook-editor forum?

[DiapDealer]

He uses both so much, he's always getting them confused.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

He uses both so much, he's always getting them confused.

In many cases, they are so similar that I did not notice I had launched the other (to note the steps) when I wrote the reply

[KevinH]

The fastest easiest way to get the word count in a single xhtml file in Sigil is to highlight that file in BookBrowser and invoke GetInfo from the pop-up menu. It has the wordcount for that file. But if you need it for the entire epub, only Reports will generate that.

[DNSB]

The few times I've wanted to check a word count in Sigil, I opened Reports, select the HTML Files item and then browsed to the bottom of the All Words column.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by theducks

Indirectly.
Tools: Reports: Words. The summary is at the bottom

Hmm...the only difference for Sigil would be:

Tools: Reports: HTML Files: Words. The summary is at the bottom

I'd say that was purty darn close!!

[DNSB]

Close but not close enough to be quickly transferable.

[icearch]

There is an issue: the word count is incorrect, it counts strings end with space or line break, which is not correct to count Chinese.

[KevinH]

Then create your own regex to define a Chinese word in Find and make sure Regex is enabled, that Unicode us checked, and the Text check box is checked and then get count of number of matches across all xhtml.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Then create your own regex to define a Chinese word in Find and make sure Regex is enabled, that Unicode us checked, and the Text check box is checked and then get count of number of matches across all xhtml.

I don't speak Chinese, but, AFAIK, they don't use spaces between words. The only way to add word count support for Chinese would be to bundle Sigil with a Chinese word segmentation library.

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

I don't speak Chinese, but, AFAIK, they don't use spaces between words. The only way to add word count support for Chinese would be to bundle Sigil with a Chinese word segmentation library.

So there is no regex that can detect the end of a word in Chinese?
Wow, how to dictionaries and spellchecking even work then?

[DNSB]

For the most part, the word counts I've seen in Chinese texts seem to count every displayed character and then divide by a bugger factor. Modern Chinese uses quite a few words that use 2 or more characters. If you want real fun, try sorting in Japanese where quite a few Kanji glyphs have multiple pronunciations.

The horrible example from one page on the issue was:

• 淳子 (Junko)
• 淳子 (Atsuko)
• 淳子 (Kiyoko)
• 淳子 (Akiko)

And yes, the kanji version of the names are the same, just multiple pronunciations. This is a reason that Japanese ID tends to have a ruby (furigana) version of the name in hiragana which is the primary phonetic syllabary used in Japan though you can find katakana and romaji (Latin alphabet) used.

[KevinH]

I checked and there does appear to be github python based repos to do pseudo words counts for Chinese text that do seem to mainly count single characters and then "adjust" that figure. So this would be a job for a Chinese Sigil plugin developer as I have no way to evaluate which of these github python programs is the best one to use.