This is the help page of the Syllable Counter for digrams and trigrams that was part of the old version of the WordCreator. You can still download this old version on the download page, but we recommend using the newest version of the program.
In the newer versions, there is only one counter for all areas of application (this counter is also Unicode enabled). Apart from other things, you can select in the settings that only digrams or trigrams should be counted, what corresponds to the function of this old syllable counter. This made a specific syllable counter no longer necessary. Here you can get information about the new counter.
The Syllable Counter is a tool for counting syllables from texts. It is integrated in the WordCreator and you can find it in the menu under "Tools > Count Syllables". A complete list of all functions with precise explanation can be found under the topic functions. Please note that with these syllable counter only two and three party syllables of ANSI characters can be counted. For the counting of di-and trigrams of Unicode characters, please use the Unicode-counter. For the counting of real syllables, please use the Syllable Counter for real Syllables, which also supports Unicode.
Here you can see a screenshot of the main window of the syllable counter.
On the left, you can see the box for the text to be counted, on the right there are all options and in the middle you can see the final result of the counting.
Your first syllable list
Start the WordCreator and go to the menu "Tools > Count Syllables". Then type some words in the box "Input Text" and click on "Count" in the bottom right corner of the window. Thereafter, in the box "Result" will appear a frequency list of the used two-party syllables. Your first list is ready.
The Output Format
In the top right corner of the window, you can see a box with the title output format. Here you can define in which way the output should be created. Some default settings of often used formats can be found in the list. Furthermore, of course, it 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 tran