Hi Wols,
On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 23:56 +0100, Wols Lists wrote:
> > Anyone particularly brave that feels able to replicate the calc
> > regression tests for writer out there ?
>
> I know I'm butting in without knowing the details, but what do you mean
> by "the right result".
Ah - he who writes the regression tests, rules the world :-)
> One of the reasons WordPerfect has hung on so
> strongly to the lawyer market in the US is that Word does not use the
> legal definition of word-count (something to do with footnotes or
> footers or that sort of thing). Do we know how Word and WordPerfect
> count words, and can we emulate both of them?
Well - I'm well up for 'doing it right' personally; but I would love to
have some well commented regression tests with the corner cases
explained carefully there.
> Even if we're not getting it right right now, if we define the
> regression tests we can then make the code fit :-)
Naturally :-) but what we really need is brave hackers to write
them ...
Thanks,
Michael.
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