Issue 24038

Summary: Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level readability statistics
Product: Writer Reporter: ashforma <mark.ashford>
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Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P5 (lowest) CC: issues
Version: OOo 1.0.1   
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Hardware: All   
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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Description ashforma 2004-01-01 20:59:52 UTC 
In MS Word, as part of the Grammar/Speel Check I can obtain the Flesch-Kincaid 
Grade Level readability and Flesch Reading Ease statistics.

Is there a similar functionality in OpenOffice?

I have searched the help documentation but it doesn't even recognize these 
readibility features, so, a, I correct in assuming OpenOffice can't do this?
Comment 1 h.ilter 2004-01-06 09:38:31 UTC 
HI->MRU: Pass to BH when this is an ENHANCEMENT
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2004-01-06 11:00:04 UTC 
MRU->BH. looks like this feature can only be provided in package with a grammar
check. The Flesh/Kincaid statistics give information about the complexity of a
text. Here's what I've found about it:

 Flesch Score (Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level) -
The Flesch scores (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and Flesch Reading Ease) are based
on the average number of syllables per word and words per sentence. The
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score rates text based on the U.S. high school grade
level system (i.e. a score of 7.0 would mean a 7th grader should be able to
comprehend the text). The Flesch Reading Ease score is based on a 100 point
scale; the higher the score, the easier it is to comprehend.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level:

(.39 x ASL) + (11.8 x ASW) – 15.59

Flesch Reading Ease:

206.835 – (1.015 x ASL) – (84.6 x ASW)

ASL = average sentence length (number of words divided by the number of sentences)

ASW = average number of syllables per word (number of syllables divided by
number of words)
Comment 3 ashforma 2004-01-06 13:33:27 UTC 
I understand the concepts and how the results are caluclated, I use it 
regularly in MS Word. When do you think this feature and a grammar checker will 
be added to OO? They are very obvious omissions right now.

Mark
Comment 4 phantym 2005-09-11 15:39:33 UTC 
I agree that this should be added.  The ASW may be a bit tricky depending on 
the dictionaries available.

There are other reading indices available, perhaps one of them would be easier 
to implement quickly
Comment 5 aziem 2005-12-28 22:40:35 UTC 
This issue looks like issue 18975.
Comment 6 lohmaier 2005-12-28 23:50:15 UTC 
*** Issue 18975 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:03:43 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".