It seems to me the problem is writing something, frex, 100k in Scriv, and then exporting it to Open Office or Word, and discovering another 25k in there when you convert to SFM?
That is normal. That is the difference between SMF and word processor wordcount. There's always a huge difference. So if your editor wants 100k SMF, then you can go into Scriv, click View, Project Stats, and there it will give you page counts. Go to the options tab in there and make sure the lines per page is at 25. Give it a second to recount, and that will give you how many SMF pages on the printed pages line. 400 will be where you aim.
Make sense? Even if you were writing in Word and using the processor count, then converting to SMF, you'd have the same wordcount jump. That's just their natures.
Of course, I'm only assuming that's the problem you're describing...
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Date: 2009-04-29 03:45 pm (UTC)That is normal. That is the difference between SMF and word processor wordcount. There's always a huge difference. So if your editor wants 100k SMF, then you can go into Scriv, click View, Project Stats, and there it will give you page counts. Go to the options tab in there and make sure the lines per page is at 25. Give it a second to recount, and that will give you how many SMF pages on the printed pages line. 400 will be where you aim.
Make sense? Even if you were writing in Word and using the processor count, then converting to SMF, you'd have the same wordcount jump. That's just their natures.
Of course, I'm only assuming that's the problem you're describing...