Bug report: Trailing spaces increase word count

[Peter T.]

On the NaNoWriMo forum, someone claimed that yWriter 7 was giving incorrect word counts. I looked into it and found out the following: 

With yWriter version 7.1.3.0, it looks as if a space at the end of a paragraph is counted as a separate word. 

This is a paragraph without a trailing space:

This is a paragraph ending with a space:

The same applies to scenes ending with a blank line. 

[Simon Haynes]

Odd - I haven't touched the wordcount routine for many years, but perhaps I stopped the program stripping off trailing whitespace before doing the count.

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[Peter T.]

On Friday, July 1, 2022 at 2:21:29 PM UTC+2 Simon Haynes wrote:

 perhaps I stopped the program stripping off trailing whitespace before doing the count.

Yes, that would be an explanation.

In the meantime, further investigations have shown that dashes are apparently counted like ordinary letters. 

 

The "en-dash", as it is often used in Erurope, and surrounded by spaces, increases the word count.:

The "em-dash," as it is commonly used without spaces, joins two words into one when counting:

This leads to very different counting errors with different language habits. 

I'll add that I put both dashes in the list of punctuation marks for the spell checker. 

 

[Peter T.]

By the way, the screenshots show that hyphens do not join two words as they should, but separate them, so that one word too many is counted here as well.

A useful reference for word counting seems to be LibreOfiice 7. How NaNoWriMo does it, I cannot say.