From 3236fc79f2a31e2f8d6bbcb5ef1aa53aab6ecbf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Heiss <andrew@andrewheiss.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 12:39:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation for no counting

---
 README.md  | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 README.qmd | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3fc3354..763a087 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   - [Usage](#usage)
   - [Terminal output](#terminal-output)
   - [Shortcodes](#shortcodes)
+  - [No counting](#no-counting)
   - [Appendices](#appendices)
 - [Example](#example)
 - [Credits](#credits)
@@ -175,6 +176,21 @@ title: Something
 subtitle: "{{< words-sum body-note-ref >}} words"
 ```
 
+### No counting
+
+If you want to omit text from the word count, you can include it in a
+[fenced
+div](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#sec-divs-and-spans)
+with the `{.no-count}` class:
+
+``` markdown
+::: {.no-count}
+
+These words don't count.
+
+:::
+```
+
 ### Appendices
 
 In academic writing, it’s often helpful to have a separate word count
diff --git a/README.qmd b/README.qmd
index c3e63f1..4f0738e 100644
--- a/README.qmd
+++ b/README.qmd
@@ -118,6 +118,18 @@ title: Something
 subtitle: "{{{< words-sum body-note-ref >}}} words"
 ```
 
+### No counting
+
+If you want to omit text from the word count, you can include it in a [fenced div](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#sec-divs-and-spans) with the `{.no-count}` class:
+
+````markdown
+::: {.no-count}
+
+These words don't count.
+
+:::
+````
+
 ### Appendices
 
 In academic writing, it's often helpful to have a separate word count for content in the appendices, since things there don't typically count against journal word limits. [Quarto has a neat feature for automatically creating an appendix section](https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/appendices.html) and moving content there automatically as needed. It does this (I think) with a fancy Lua filter.