Its good to see that it was fixed! it really is a great new feature! On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, at 12:01 PM, Manfred J. Krause wrote > Hi, > > you might have a look at > 'Bug 53399 - Word count inconsistent and wrong with non-breaking space' > → https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53399 > Status: RESOLVED FIXED > > The bug-fix will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.2. > > mjk > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Anthony Easthope wrote: > > Hi guys > > > > > > > > I was just doing an assignment that needed a word count and was using > > LO 3.6.1 and found that the word count is not working as it once was. I > > quite like the new bottom status bar update it is a new and decent > > update although it seems to be buggy at this stage. Take this block of > > text which is from my assignment: > > > > > > > > "Power does corrupt and throughout history there has been a number of > > examples of totalitarian governments. I have decided to explore the > > theme “Power Corrupts” > > > > Throughout this whole year I have studied texts across a various amount > > of genres and now have found that within some of the texts I have > > studied there was a strong connection throughout them that connection > > was the idea that power corrupts. The texts which had the best > > connections where: Schindlers List by Steven Spielburg , Changes by > > Tupac , Answer by Frederic Brown and examination day by Henry > > Releasable. Each text carried the theme of power corrupts in a > > different way but all had the same parallels and critiques of the > > world. It also appears that some of the texts are subtlety warning us > > about the potential problems with totalitarian regimes that have > > occurred in the past or which could occur in the future. > > > > > > > > The first text I looked at was Schindlers list. "Schindler's List" is > > the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, > > who uses Jewish labour to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World > > War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more > > clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and > > he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers. With > > The realisation that Schindler has as to what the Nazis where really > > doing also awoke in Schindler how corrupt the regime actually was. > > Steven Spielberg the director uses several events in the film to > > highlight the corruptness of the Nazi’s for example when Schindler > > finds out that some of his workers are to be sent to an extermination > > camp he bribes the officer with a valuable gold watch in order to > > release the prisoners. A character which personifies corruption > > throughout Amon Goeth who does all sorts of twisted and corrupt things > > such shooting everybody who was associated with one person who stole a > > chicken. The following extract of dialogue also shows us how evil he > > really is" > > > > > > > > now LO reports this as being 258 words. I count it myself and get > > roughly 350. I then copy and paste this block of text into a online > > word counting thing such as: [1]http://www.wordcounttool.com/ > > > > and get 338 and then I take it over to MO which gives me 338! I don't > > know what to trust! > > > > antiso...@myopera.com > > > > References > > > > 1. http://www.wordcounttool.com/ > > -- > The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.1 > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Document-Foundation-announces-LibreOffice-3-6-1-tc4004235.html > > Releases/3.6.1/RC1 · Bugs fixed against 3.6.0 RC3 > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.6.1/RC1#List_of_fixed_bugs > > Releases/3.6.1/RC2 · Bugs fixed against 3.6.1 RC1 > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.6.1/RC2#List_of_fixed_bugs > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > 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
-- antiso...@myopera.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
