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Re: Verne's longest novel

From: Christian Sánchez <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 05:27:37 -0300
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<It seems to me that this sort of comparison can vary wildly according to the source.

Yes, of course.

<Are we talking about well-edited French texts or which translations?

"Internet" French texts.

<Do the electronic files have stray data such as page numbers and running headings? These could make a difference in the "counts".

No.

<In the same way, page count would vary wildly by edition, whether illustrations count in the page numbering, etc.

I'm counting words (or characters).

<You probably need to name exactly which versions of the files you are "counting" and their source.

That's a task out of my reach!

Best regards,

Christian Sánchez





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  From: Ralf Tauchmann <ralf.tauchmann~at~t-online.de>
  To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
  Sent: Sun, May 22, 2011 11:36:00 PM
  Subject: Re: Verne's longest novel

    "Christian Sánchez" <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar> schrieb:
    Grant: 209,825 words.

    IM: 207,802.

    Sandorf: 156,241.
  Dear Christian, dear all,

  my textcount software (TextCount 6.1) gives the following result (with the "word" count not referring to "real" words, but words longer than 8 characters are counted as two words) :

        File
       Characters
       Words
       
        IleMysterieuse.doc
       1.222.522
       233.013
       
        Grant.doc
       1.203.413
       227.768
       
        Sandorf.doc
       1.119.885
       213.431
       
        TOTAL
       4.412.990
       839.493
       


  Results of the Microsoft Word statistics (characters incl. spaces -- and words as "real" words):

  ILE MYSTERIEUSE:
    1,214,119 characters
       201,625 words

  GRANT:
     1,198,583 characters
        198,452 words

  SANDORF
     1,120,201 characters
        187,731 words

  Best regards,

  Ralf
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