Re: Taxonomic List (counting & sorting)

Roger:
> This discussion has got me wondering--  the latest version of the Kash
> dictionary, according to "Properties", has 1827 paragraphs, i.e. head
> entries.  The number of Kash words per entry varies from 1 to 21*, with many
> having 3-5 derivatives.  The Kash words are in BOLD-- is there any way to
> ask Word to count BOLD forms?? There doesn't seem to be
There are very crude workarounds, which is about the limit that my skills
can rise to. Create a copy of the file. Either:
(a) Do a search and replace deleting all nonbold text. Then count words.
or
(b) Do a search and replace deleting all paragraphs. Do another search
and replace inserting a paragraph marker at the start of each word in
bold. Then count paragraphs.

If you don't know how to do this, I can tell you. But I'm sure other
people will be able to suggest less brute-force methods.

> Come to think of it, counting Bold forms still wouldn't be accurate, since
> cross-refs. are also in bold and that would result in a lot of duplication
> ¡ay de mí!
Try option (b) (or (a) and then convert spaces to para markers). Sort
alphabetically. Then manually delete duplicates. Then count.

Or, suck up to one of our many perl-literate brethren.

There are ways you could automatically convert your file contents into
a Word table. If you have one rwo per Kash word, then you can automatically
number the rows, which will of course tell you the number of Kash words.

As I say, I'd be happy to advise further on the details, but don't want to
force any more of these crudities on you unsolicited!

--And.

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