word count in calibre editor

rjwse@aol.com · Yesterday, 09:20 AM

I am looking for a way to do a word count in an epub file in calibre's editor such that while editing I can reduce word count via some sort of temporary exclusion. I noticed that style="visibility:hidden" leaves vertical space but word count in that style is still counted. In style="display:hidden" vertical space disappears but but word count in that style is still counted. Is there any other convenient way to temporarily exclude text to reduce word count. I am editing to reduce total word count size of file to specification of maximum word count.
Best regards, Pop

lomkiri · Yesterday, 01:44 PM

I suppose you are using the ctrl-n in a search/replace to count the occurrences of "word" in the current file or in the text ?
In that case, you could use a particular tag or class to mark the words you want to ignore.

For exemple, with the tag :
Pass this regex with a Negative Lookbehind:
(?<!)marked-word
on the text:
this marked-word will be counted, but this marked-word won't

Ctrl-n will give 1

Of course, you could use a as well, with the convenient style in the css (a snippet can be used to insert it easily)

lomkiri · Yesterday, 02:37 PM

Edit: Ah, I think I missed the point, you probably use the "count words" of the report tool.

In that case, the solution I would imagine is to write a specific regex-function creating a table of all words, copy of the one of the report tool, but excluding all tagged words as defined above.
The regex will select all the text inside the <body>, and the regex-function will create a dict {'w1': n1, 'w2': n2, ...} for all the words found but not preceded by the defined tag.

It is not a trivial function to write, but it's not too hard either. You could find this sort of idea in my function searching for the number of occurrences of each tag in an epub: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=79

readx · Yesterday, 04:13 PM

For me, the easiest way is to comment out the text with 
The comment text will not be counted.

BetterRed · Yesterday, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjwse@aol.com

. . .
I am editing to reduce total word count size of file to specification of maximum word count.

Curious: Why?

On what basis would words be excluded? Word classification maybe - i.e. articles, conjunctions, interjections, articles, prepositions etc.

BR

theducks · Yesterday, 08:28 PM

The report tool has a summary of the words used at the botto int the counts of individual words

rjwse@aol.com · Today, 07:08 AM

Quote:

For me, the easiest way is to comment out the text with 
The comment text will not be counted.

That is the solution I was looking for! Thank you.

Quote:

Curious: Why?

For example, you have 23,000 words and the maximum is 20,000 words; you've gotta cut 3000 but it's still gotta flow, still make sense, can't leave anything essential out.

Yesterday, 09:20 AM	#1
rjwse@aol.com Addict Posts: 333 Karma: 2228060 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: LaVernia, Texas Device: kindle epub readers on android	word count in calibre editor I am looking for a way to do a word count in an epub file in calibre's editor such that while editing I can reduce word count via some sort of temporary exclusion. I noticed that style="visibility:hidden" leaves vertical space but word count in that style is still counted. In style="display:hidden" vertical space disappears but but word count in that style is still counted. Is there any other convenient way to temporarily exclude text to reduce word count. I am editing to reduce total word count size of file to specification of maximum word count. Best regards, Pop

Yesterday, 01:44 PM	#2
lomkiri Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 1497966 Join Date: Jul 2021 Device: N/A	I suppose you are using the ctrl-n in a search/replace to count the occurrences of "word" in the current file or in the text ? In that case, you could use a particular tag or class to mark the words you want to ignore. For exemple, with the tag <small>: Pass this regex with a Negative Lookbehind: (?<!<small>)marked-word on the text: this marked-word will be counted, but this <small>marked-word</small> won't Ctrl-n will give 1 Of course, you could use a <span class="ignored"> as well, with the convenient style in the css (a snippet can be used to insert it easily)

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Yesterday, 02:37 PM	#3
lomkiri Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 1497966 Join Date: Jul 2021 Device: N/A	Edit: Ah, I think I missed the point, you probably use the "count words" of the report tool. In that case, the solution I would imagine is to write a specific regex-function creating a table of all words, copy of the one of the report tool, but excluding all tagged words as defined above. The regex will select all the text inside the <body>, and the regex-function will create a dict {'w1': n1, 'w2': n2, ...} for all the words found but not preceded by the defined tag. It is not a trivial function to write, but it's not too hard either. You could find this sort of idea in my function searching for the number of occurrences of each tag in an epub: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=79

Yesterday, 04:13 PM	#4
readx Connoisseur Posts: 95 Karma: 118402 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Cybook Gen3	For me, the easiest way is to comment out the text with <!-- text --> The comment text will not be counted.

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