Re: [libreoffice-users] Disparities in the LO 3.6.1 Wordcount

Hi :)
Gedit (a text editor) said it had 343 words.  I think i trust a text editor rather than a 
word-processor and definitely more than i trust MS.  Sorry i don't have time to do a proper count!  
Glad to see there is a bug-fix on it's way through the system and that should be out in 3.6.3 
apparently, which is going to be released very soon (depending on how you define soon, of course)
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Anthony Easthope <antisocky@myopera.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 31 August 2012, 10:26
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Disparities in the LO 3.6.1 Wordcount
>
> 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!
>
> antisocky@myopera.com
>
> References
>
> 1. http://www.wordcounttool.com/
>
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