Issue 23949 - Paragraph count is not accurate
Summary: Paragraph count is not accurate
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2003-12-29 17:45 UTC by mrvnmouse
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:43 UTC (History)
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Description mrvnmouse 2003-12-29 17:45:58 UTC
If I remember correctly from english class, the proper way to count a paragraph
is not to count every hard return, but rather to count every hard return where
some text exists before the hard return. Currently, OpenOffice counts paragraphs
as every hard return.

Test Case:
1. Create a document with the following:

Test




Test

2. Go to Tools/Word Count
3. look at the paragraph count.

Expected:
It should be 2

Actual:
it is 6.

Additional related suggestion: Perhaps also have line breaks counted for people
who want that statistic as well.

Basically, my thinking is the fact that since every hard return is counted as a
paragraph. If you have a user who puts two returns after every paragraph, it
will appear to them as if they have double the paragraphs that they really have
in the document. If the desire to keep the linebreak statistic is there, then
you can just rename the count in the word count dialog to linebreak count.
Comment 1 h.ilter 2004-01-05 16:24:49 UTC
Reassigned to BH
Comment 2 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:56:09 UTC
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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Comment 3 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:14:57 UTC
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".