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Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] what metric replaces page-count?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 12 April 2021 16:46 UTC

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On 2021-04-12, at 16:55, Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Lawyers and judges are happy to cite by section.  Time to move on from tired, inaccurate metaphors.

Yes, but assessing the size of a document (which is what this thread is about) by section count doesn’t work so well.  The page count of the PDF is the only ready-made metric we have today.  Putting in another metric (e.g., word count(*)) might be helpful.

Grüße, Carsten

(*) ...where that often doesn’t actually count words but characters and then divides that count by 6 (or 5!), which better copes with different complexity grades.

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