https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55359
stfhell <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from stfhell <[email protected]> --- No, word counting is not a joke, but it's not an exact science either. Whatever way Writer counts words, there will always be somebody who disagrees with it, because "word" is not a simple and easy concept for complex documents. (Is a number a word? If yes, are "10.5" and "10,5" 2 words? Is "off-duty" 1 or 2 words, and what about dates like "1/1/2010"? Should headers and footers be included in the count?) Word count is something that has been discussed at length, see for example OpenOffice-Bugs 80815 (Word count differs from MS Word): https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=80815 86537 (word count should display count excluding footnotes): https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=86537 102135 (Document the rules used to count words in a document) https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=102135 Back then (2009) the developers aimed at having a word count that is compatible to MS Word, not because Word did a particularly good job at that, but because it defines a de facto standard. I think this is still true (judging from the patches made to the word count algorithm for Bug 46757), and Word/Writer compatibility here does make some sense. Re attachment 67729: The correct answer is 7, as far as it concerns me - footnotes are part of a document and should be included in the word count because they appear on the page, they are not metadata. (One could argue that counting the 2 footnote characters as 1 word is a bit inconsistent.) Including footnotes/endnotes in the count is not a bug. One should be able to exclude them (like in Word) if an organisation measures text in words _ex_ footnotes, but there are also people who need them in the word count (see OpenOffice-Bug 86537/comments 2+4) and expect LO not to ignore them just like that. Changing this behaviour (having options like in Word) would be an enhancement, not a bug. Re attachment 68225: Writer does not count the brackets as words. If you delete " (89)" from your document, it still has 7 words (and 42 characters!), 2 more than you can actually see. The problem is: Where does Writer see these 2 words? Writer also counts 1 line, but 3 paragraphs. This looks like a bug, but it has nothing to do with the parentheses. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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