Text selection in the middle of a paragraph doesn't count words

[mbb]

If text is selected within a paragraph, words are not counted. They are counted if the selection starts at the beginning or at the end of the paragraph, but not if the selection is made within the paragraph. Two screenshots ar attached; one with a selection from the beginning of the paragraph and another with the selection within the paragraph.

**This behaviour is also seen in Textmaker 2021**

Cheers,

[raitis.veksejs]

I wasn't able to reproduce the issue. If you could provide a screen recording (you can use for that purpose for example ScrrenToGif) of what you do and an example file, maybe, it could help.

[mbb]

Here is the video. As you can see, I only open a file and select text. Word-count is ok if selection is made from the beginning of a paragraph, otherwise it is completely inconsistent.

[lgsl]

I can reproduce this.

[mbb]

I just tested the Windows version and, there, this behaviour is not present.

[petermross]

There is indeed something strange about the word count, both in the beta version and in TextMaker in Office Professional 2021. See the attached text file: if I select the words 'publication titles' in the third-to-last line, it is reported to be one word. If I select those words in the last line, it is reported to be two words.

In the original document from which the third-to-last line was copy-pasted, the space between 'publication' and 'titles' is an ordinary space, typed as usual (I retyped it first to be sure).

I'm using Arch Linux (6.2.9-arch1-1 on an x86_64 machine).

[mbb]

I really can't trust the word-count of Textmaker. I'm working on a section of a document where MSWord counts 512 words and Textmaker (on Linux) counts 669 words. MSWord is right.

This is bad because I often work with limits. For example, I have a limit of 500 words for this section.

[SuperTech]

Thanks for reporting this problem with sample document and screenshots. I am able to reproduce it and forwarded the details to our developer team for further investigation.

[SuperTech]

Our developer team have fixed this problem and the solution will be included in the next update of Beta version and next service pack of SoftMaker Office 2021.

[mbb]

I confirm this problem is fixed in the new build.

Thanks,

[SuperTech]

Thanks for the confirmation.