Paul wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Richard Travers<[email protected]> wrote:
I do a lot of my writing in a DTP package on a rather obscure operating
system - purely because it is a package that I have used for many years and
am very familiar with. Often, though, I need to share my work with third
parties, which means transferring my work, using text files, into OOo,
formatting, and saving out in a standard format (depending on the intended
recipient). So far so good.
What I have noticed, though, is that if I do a word count in my DTP package,
and then in OOo, the results come out differently. At first I thought that
was because the two programs were handling, for example, hyphenated words,
differently. But a little investigation has shown this not to be the case.
Try this:
Turn off 'Custom Quotes' in Tools>Autocorrect, and type:
'word'
"word"
(with the quotes)
Now turn on custom quotes, and repeat the exercise.
Now highlight each word in turn and do a word count. With custom quotes
turned off, the word count is, as expected, one in each case. However, with
custom quotes turned on, the word count in each case becomes two.
This applies also to a sentence between custom quotes - one extra word is
added to the word count. This can, of course, add a lot of notional extra
words to a piece of work containing dialogue, for example.
As I write short stories, usually containing dialogue, for competitions
where word counts are important, this is not just a trivial curiosity!
Feature or bug?
Open Office 3.2.0 on Windows XP.
Interesting. I would think definitely a bug. If someone could try this
in the latest release (3.2.1) to confirm, then we should lodge a bug
request for the developers to review.
Good pickup.
/paul
I can confirm this behavior on OOo 3.2.1 using OS X 10.4 and
Ubuntu 10.4 AMD64. Both OOo versions were downloaded from the OOo
website. I typed a 10 word sentence. Then I entered one set of custom
quotes, and Word count reported 11 words. I then added a second set of
custom quotes, and Word count reported 12 words.
Dan
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