Re: [libreoffice-users] word count in impress

Hi all:

    I really don't know how count the words the programs that do it ... 
but to be sense, a word has to be a "character or group of characters 
that has meaning by it self"

    As this, a number has meaning by it self, the special character has 
meaning by it self, a ";" doesn't have a meaning by it self because it 
is a grammar character to input to reader takes a breath and change a 
little about the topic is going on in the paragraph. And so on.

    But if the program take for example ";" as a word because it is a 
character, it is wrong to consider a literal translation but in the 
context the translator it would be taken because he has to build the 
translation using it to make a meaning of the translate.

    I think, to clear this topic, it is necessary that the translator 
think how to take some characters like ";", and investigate with the 
programmers of each program like Writer and Gedit, how they make the 
algorithm to count to be sure that he is taken the right quantity when 
is using those programs to his job.

    I hope this help,

Regards,

Jorge Rodríguez


El 03/10/2017 a las 11:38, Toki escribió:
> On 10/02/2017 04:13 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>
> > (A similar question posted on the net somewhere was "closed, because it is irrelevant" ???)
> I'll hazard an explanation, without looking at the specific question so
> closed.
>
> a) There are four different ways to count the number of words in a text.
>    Without knowing which definition was used for the term "
> count the number of words", any formula that is used is going to provide
> the wrong answer.
>
> b) For presentations, regardless of how "word" is defined, words are not
> fundamental to the final product. What matters is the aesthetics of each
> frame, and the number of frames within the presentation. As such, words
> are irrelevant;
>
> c) There reason 10-20-30 is a law, is why frames should not contain words;
>
> jonathon


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