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------- Additional comments from scott...@openoffice.org Mon Apr 13 07:28:01 +0000 2009 ------- I too see inaccurate word counts in OO Write. I'm using American English v3.01 for Windows. The left-leaning double quote and left-leaning single quote counts as a single word, even when it's snugged up against a word (no space). E.g. “Mia = 2 words and ‘fox = 2 words. Both of these examples should = 1 word. Some other punctuation marks show up as alpha-numeric characters for the purpose of word counts. E.g. ### = 1 word and # # # = 3 words. I didn't check all possible characters. Both these examples should = 0 words. Hyphenated words count as one word, even when using a hard hyphen. E.g. blue-green = 1 word. This example should = 2 words. Note, I haven't checked, but soft hyphens should join words to make a count of one. Hard hyphens should not. ---- In my opinion only strings alpha-numeric characters should contribute to word counts, never any punctuation marks. For purposes of finding the boundaries of these strings hard hyphens should be treated as a space, soft hyphens should not. Neither should apostrophes, or left or right-leaning single quotes (which might be treated as apostrophes). E.g. can't, can’t, and even can‘t should = 1 word. The hard hyphen rule will mess up phone numbers, but phone numbers should be less common in blocks of text than hyphenated words. One possible fix is to treat hard hyphens within strings of numbers differently than hard hyphens within strings of alphas. E.g. blue-green = 2 words, 555-1212 = 1 word. This will still mess up people who use hard hyphens where they should be using soft hyphens, but then people should learn to use the tools properly. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
