[pmwiki-users] CountGlyphs recipe doesn't work

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:11:09AM -0400, Pico wrote:
> Ben Wilson wrote:
> > On 5/18/06, Pico <pmwiki at ben-amotz.com> wrote:
> >> I just tried installing it on my wiki and it didn't work.
> >>
> >> A search on PmWiki.org reveals that this has been posted as PITS/00710,
> >> which notes that it was working, but appears to have stopped working
> >> with version 2.1
> > 
> > I fixed it.[1] I also updated the cookbook page.[2] Would you mind
> > independently checking and closing the PITS if it works?[3]  The
> > problem was the way PmWiki tracks when to run a markup was reversed
> > between then and now. Found out by trying "?action=ruleset" which
> > showed that the markups were being executed after they were erased by
> > Markup("{$var}"); Reversing the angles seemed to have done the trick.
> > 
> > [1]: See http://dausha.net/Main/Main
> > [2]: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/CountGlyphs
> > [3]: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00710
> > 
> 
> Ok, now the markups report numbers, but they do not seem to be correct. 
> When I copied and pasted this entire page onto my site, the markup 
> reported "This page contains 50 glyphs and 8 words." When I edited the 
> page and added three words, the numbers did not change.
> 
> You can have a look at a that test page here.
> 
> http://pico.ben-amotz.com/Test/CountGylphs

Hmm, I just tried it on that page and it worked for me.
It changed "50 glyphs and 8 words" to "63 glyphs and 11 words".

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