count

When it appears as the child of a story-element-type element or of a field element in a story element type definition, this element specifies that CUE is to keep count of the characters and words in the story element or field. The counts maintained by CUE may be displayed below the story element or field and/or added to a total for the whole storyline and displayed on a Metrics metadata panel.

Syntax

<count
    show="(true|false)"
    for="text"?
  >
  <minchars>...</minchars>?<maxchars>...</maxchars>?<minwords>...</minwords>?<maxwords>...</maxwords>?
</count>

Attributes

show="(true|false)"

Determines whether or not the count is displayed below the story elements or fields.

Allowed values are:

true: The count is displayed.
false: The count is not displayed.

for="text" (optional)

A space-separated list of summary identifiers, specifying the CUE Metrics panel summaries to which the count is to be added. The summary identifiers must have been defined in a CUE storylineMetrics configuration.