How is the word count of a work calculated?

Category: Culture/Art>> Calligraphy, Painting and Art

Problem description:

There is a saying that the number of words in a work is calculated together with spaces, but I If the words written on a line on different papers are different, then the number of spaces should also be different, so wouldn’t the calculated number of words be different? Is the number of words generally counted together with spaces, or only the number of actual words? If it is counted together with spaces, how to avoid this? What kind of error?

Analysis:

Now: calculated as spaces, including spaces and punctuation.

Before 1923, only the number of words was counted.

After 1923, under the promotion of Lu Xun, punctuation began to be calculated.

Now, due to the liveliness of the text, spaces are counted.

Poetry is an exception. Poetry is measured in lines.