It turns out that WordPerfect counts a record citation like “CR.25” as two separate words. What about the difference between WordPerfect and Word? (( Perhaps the programmer was trying aid struggling freelancers “paid by the word”? It’s puzzling. But so long as it counts words so greedily, it will be relegated to short motions and letters. This is a shame, because Pages is a very pleasant word processor to use.
Pages sees imaginary word breaks in places that I do not. What led to the huge gap between the lowest count (Word) and the highest count (Pages)? It turns out that Pages uses an algorithm that treats an abbreviation like “4.RR.125-26” as being four words. Here are the word counts from four word processors I had at my fingertips: Word processor I put this text into its own clean word-processing file and made a few tweaks to the typography. I lifted roughly a page and a half from a recent appellate brief. Statutory citations: How many words is a cite to “§123.23(A)(1)(i)(a)”? Is it just one long word, or is it five very short words? Record citations: Is a record citation like “4.RR.124-25” one word or two or three or four? Numerals: Does a pinpoint cite to a span of pages (e.g., “123-25”) count as one word or two? Legal citations: Is “S.W.3d” one word or two?
Word processors disagree about the mathĪlthough your favorite word processor will give you a “word count,” do you know what it is counting? This post explains my thinking - and may make you reconsider your word-processor allegiances. The comment I left suggested that your certificate specify the word processor that you used to generate the document (and thus the count).
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You’ve no doubt noticed the new word-count limits applicable in Texas appellate courts.Īt his blog, Todd Smith has collected some examples from practitioners about how to phrase the word-count certificate of compliance.
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