Customizing Word Counts

Use this option to enhance how words are counted in the Analysis Expert and Statistical Pane.

Click on Ignore words containing digits to exclude alpha-numerical words from the word count for a translation project. This can be helpful if the source text contains a large number of part-numbers, product codes or dimension figures.

When the checkbox Ignore words containing digits is clicked OFF, the word count analysis will mimic previous versions of Alchemy CATALYST and Alchemy PUBLISHER.

Exceptions

When this option is selected, the word counter algorithm checks for a few exceptions, to allow words like "3-way" to be counted as localizable words. These exceptions are:-

there is exactly one hyphen
all character on one side of the hyphen are digits
all characters on the other side of the hyphen are non-digits
the non-digits characters are 3 or more

This ensures a higher accuracy in creating Project Analysis reports and using Project Statistics.

In order to have an idea about how many words would be left uncounted when the checkbox is on, you can use Find & Replace and use the following regular expressions to find alpha-numerical words:-

[0-9]+ returns strings containing at least a digit
-[0-9]+|[0-9]+- returns strings containing an hyphen followed (or preceded) by at least a digit