Word count discrepancies between apps…

I’m finding that the word count in Dt is a bit inflated compared to the other apps that have word count in them as well. I’ve broken down a couple of doc’s with different apps to show this:

Doc #1
• MultiMarkdown Composer: 791 words
• Marked: 790 words
• Ulysses: 790 words
• DEVONthink: 797

Doc #2
• MultiMarkdown Composer: 833 words
• Marked: 837
• Ulysses: 837
• DEVONthink: 846

Doc #3
• MultiMarkdown Composer: 885 words
• Marked: 882
• Ulysses: 882
• DEVONthink: 894

So you see DEVONthink has a bit of an inflated word count and that makes me curious as to why because I often need to submit entries based on word count and I’d rather go with the more conservative count than the inflated version if that’s possible.

Thanks for the consideration!
-Afshin

This thread on the Scrivener forum might be informative. Seems that different programs use different word count algorithms.
literatureandlatte.com/forum … d+#p181524

Thank you Kinsey for the link.

I’m just wondering if I may humbly request for Dt’s algorithm be changed to be closer to the more conservative numbers?