Apparently I’m now a Scrivenerd. I’m really liking this program now that I’ve got it running. I talk a lot about that and writing today.
Yesterday’s word count: 1433
Starting words for the day: 8094 (corrected for Scrivener Counts)
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Your word count issue comes from a bug in the way openoffice counts words. Ex: “Hello” counts as two words. I think the bug only applies to quotation marks, but I could be wrong. I use an external counter when it bothers me.
You’re right.
The newest version of LibreOffice counts correctly. The one I have running on this machine is off. I’ll adjust my starting word count to use the Scrivener counts.