Revision history for Perl CPAN module Lingua::En::Fathom
1.05 19 May 2001
renamed _analyse_line subroutine to _analyse_words
moved duplicated code from analyse_file & analyse_block to analyse_line subroutine
extended list of allowable abbreivations, such as "Pty. Ltd., etc."
added method to get syllables_per_word
added method to get words_per_sentence
1.04 23 Feb 2001
_initialize now resets readablity indices and num_paragraphs
Sentence count is no longer tricked by quotes before a full stop
Optional argument on analyse_block and analyse_file to allow stats to accumulate
1.03 07 Jan 2001:
Added documenation of 'report' method
1.02 15 Mar 2000:
Added paragraph count
Fixed error in test 2 of test script (word count was 38, not 39)
1.01 12 Mar 2000:
Added stricter test for hyphenated words
Added more statistics to report
Accounted for name prefixes (Mr., Dr. etc ) in sentences
Improved documentation
Changed Fog index calculation to use percentage of complex words
instead of total number of complex words. Thanks to Steve Grantz
Allowed for sentences ending in '?' and '!' as well
as '.' Thanks to Steve Grantz for spotting this limitation.
1.00 23 Jan 2000: First Release