Re: [office] word-count (was Re: [office] Data Grid Size elementproposal)

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

On 11/26/08 10:38 AM, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
>> But why is this information saved in the file?
> 
> One good reason IMHO is: so that it is accessible to other applications without loading the whole file.
> For instance you can move the mouse over a .odt file in a file manager and a tooltip will
> tell you some metadata about that file (author, word count, etc) -- without having to parse the whole file.
> 
I agree to this. If an application has this information available, then 
why should it not be able to store it in the file so that other 
applications may make use of it.

Regarding how words or sentences are counted: Well, I think it is 
outside the scope of the ODF specification to define how words or 
sentences are actually counted, because this would require that we 
include a definition of what a word or a sentence is. That's locale 
dependent, and we probably can't include definitions for all locales.

Michael



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