 is possbile to use a custom format, too. You can simply write your appropriate format in the box. For example the format string "The syllable %sign% appears %abs% times in the text" is possible. In this case the result could be "The syllable AB appears 6 times in the text", "The syllable AD appears 2 times in the text" and so on. A list of all possible formats can be obtained by clicking "Help: Customized Output" directly under the box. At this point it is also possible to set the output as an HTML table and you can enable or disable the "Live Update". With the Live Update, the output list is upated immediately as soon as the settings are changed. If your computer is to slow, you should disable this function and use "Count" instead after adjusting all of your settings. At least, at this point you can set the length of the syllables to be counted. You can set 2 or 3 in the appropriate box. With a 2 any two-party syllables as "AB" or "IN" are counted, with a 3 syllables like "THE" and "ING" are counted.
Characters to Count
Under the output format on the right side of the window you can select what characters should be counted. It is either possible only to count the letters, you can choose special character groups like ligatures and numbers or you can even define exactly single characters to be count from a table of all available characters. This makes it possible, for example, to count only a few characters. In the syllable counter not all of the ASCII characters are available for counting like it is in the character counter. Here the counter is limited only to normal letters, numbers, accents and ligatures. Firstly, it makes little sense to count syllables of punctuations and secondly, it is too computationally intensive to make this.
The output list can either be sorted by letters or numbers (frequencies) in ascending or descending order. The checkboxes for this you can find under the characters to count.
Last, some modifications to the result or the input text are possible. For example, accents (Á) can be transformed to the original letter (A), the alternative (AE) can be used for ligatures (Ä), lowercase letters can be counted like uppercase letters to count a and A only in one column, you can delete the zero-frequencies for letters which do not appear in the text and you can set a minimum frequency. With the minimum frequency all of the letters under this frequency fly out of the counting.