Reassigned to BH

Set to "NEW"

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setting target-milestone, adjusting priority

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platform, os -> ALL

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cross-linking word-count issues

I think this should be configurable so that one can decide between
both count-methods. 

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As another translator (J->E), i say, hear hear!  :)

In all seriousness, what Word does that is very helpful is two-fold (from Office
2000 on):

1) Counts can be run on a selection.  OOo only shows a count for the whole
document.  If a client only wants a translation of Pages 3-5, there's no easy
way to run a count in OOo.  It's a major roadblock to me using OOo in my own
business.

2) Counts show a breakdown by Western word and Asian character.  Many texts I
receive have some English already in them.

I'll attach an .sxw with samples.  The second issue above may need moving to a
different issue, but I think there is some overlap here.

Created attachment 12804 [details]
Sample Word and Writer word count dialogs, w/ explanation.

Whoops, in my previous post I meant that Word 2000 and on take care of item # 2.
 Earlier versions do fine with item # 1.

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I am saddened to find (in 2.0 Beta 1) that the target milestone of "OOo Later"
did not mean 2.0, as apparently nothing has been done about this issue, and
we're going on three years here.  

Any news?  Anything at all?

For those interested, I attached a comparison of screenshots showing Word's and
2.0 Beta 1 OOo's word counts to Issue 17964.  Please have a look.  

This feature of counting characters with/without spaces is present in MS Office.
It is actually a crucial tool of calculating the fee of some translators. Not
having this is a big minus.

As MS Office is more widely used you should have at least the functionality it
has but also expand on them - counting the words/characters for highlighted text
is just such an example.

Dear developers,
please consider this enhancement for some near release.
Thanks for your attention.

Dear development team!
Word count WITHOUT SPACES is extremely important for translators in the EU. I
hope you can implement it in the near future.

I agree with previous comments: THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR TRANSLATORS!
Please implement this.

I see, 4 years passes since 1st report, but trouble not resolved by now (Oo-
v2.3).

Developers! You underrate gravity of this feature!

I faced the problem, when task to count symbols w/o spaces rises in my 
commercial work. Now I emergency to use M$ Word for this feature.
Sure, many peoples suffer wothout this feature!

To fully compete with M$ text processor, your MUST resolve this  problem.

Well, here is a workaround - use macro to do the thing. Maybe somebody will even
be so kind to transform it into an extension.
This macro had been written in 2004 or before and worked OK in OOo 1.x.
<code>
REM  *****  BASIC  *****

Sub CountNonBlankChars
  Dim xDoc, xFound as Object
  Dim nAllChars as Long
  xDoc = thiscomponent
  
  If not HasUnoInterfaces (xDoc, "com.sun.star.text.XTextDocument") Then
    msgbox("This macro can be run on text documents only!", 16, "Non-Blanks count")
    exit sub
  end if
  
  nAllChars = xDoc.CharacterCount
  dim i as integer
  dim j as long
  dim oSearch
  Dim sRes  
  Dim sBlanks$
  j = 0
  'sBlanks = Chr$(9) & " " & Chr$(13) & Chr$(10) & " ,;."
  sBlanks = Chr$(9) & " "
  'sBlanks = " "
  For i = 1 To Len(sBlanks)
    oSearch = xDoc.createSearchDescriptor
    oSearch.SearchAll = true
    oSearch.SearchCaseSensitive = true
    oSearch.SearchString = mid(sBlanks, i, 1)
    xFound = xDoc.findAll(oSearch)
    j = j + xFound.Count
  Next
  j = nAllChars - j
  sRes = "Document contains " + str(nAllChars) + " characters and " + str(j) + _
    " non-blank characters."
  msgbox(sRes, 64, "Non-Blanks count")
end sub

</code>

Hi all,
this issue exists more than five years, since OOo 1.0.1. It seems not very hard
to fix it.

Counting characters without spacings is useful for translators: they can count
characters and decide, how much the translation costs. It's also useful for the
students, who study foreign language(s) and/or translation subjects (e.g.
technical translation). One of the tasks is to translate articles, which total
length is e.g. 20000 characters (without spacings).

We see five duplications and 10 votes, aehrlich wrote a workaround macro. Dear
developers, please consider to resolve this RFE ASAP. My opinion: in OOo 3.0
this RFE should be implemented.

It's a pity that I can't give all my votes for this issue. It is a single
obstacle for me to use OpenOffice.org in my everyday work. This feature is
essential for writers, journalists, teachers, students, translators, editors...
Maybe it is important for everyone who can use Writer but has to use MS Word
because of the lack of this feature. It's strange that this issue remains
unfixed and has very low priority.

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements". 

The additional variable (nCharWoSpace) should be added to SwDocStat
 struct: 
http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/Current%20%28trunk%29/sw/inc/docstat.hxx

The layout must be updated:
http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/Current%20%28trunk%29/sw/uiconfig/layout/wordcount.xml

The guys at LibreOffice already started implementing that feature and it seems that they are progressing 
well:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30550

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