Toki <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/03/2017 07:46 AM, Krunose wrote: > > And yes, seams something wrong with word count of html documents > > opened in Writer. My test document has 62 words. Saved it as html, > > opened it in Writer, counter says 70. But when I count by hand - still > > 62 words on screen. > > This gets into what constitutes a word. Definitions here are crucial. In > your example, you gave both 62 and 70 as options. * If the 70 is based > upon a printer's word, then there are 84 words, as counted by typists; * > If the 70 is based upon a typist's word, then there are 58 words, as > counted by printers; * If the 70 is based upon one of the other > definitions of a word, then there are at least two more equally > legitimate values that _accurately_ state the number of words in the > text; > > Getting back to Thomas' issue. How does the contract in question define > "word"? Once that is known, then an explanation of how to accurately > determine the number of words in the Impress file can be provided.
When I learnt touch typing, way back in the '60s, the average word was deemed to be five keystrokes, e.g. the word "thaw+hittingn the spacebar" counted as a word for determining "words per minute typed. And, of course, a word such as "costumier+spacebar" would count as two words, etc. Zed zed Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else get your way. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
