Here is the dir list for the text before, the odt,
and the text after exporting from the odt:
90601 Sep 10 00:51 soteria.txt -- original
45851 Sep 10 01:14 soteria.odt -- imported to libre
90503 Sep 10 01:17 soteria2.txt -- exported from libre
I've uploaded each file here:
http://www.upquick.com/temp/soteria.txt -- before
http://www.upquick.com/temp/soteria.odt
http://www.upquick.com/temp/soteria2.txt -- after
===== Dazed replied =====
> Not the same results I get so I would have to ask how you
> are doing it with examples and tell us if you are measuring
> all with the same tool. For example, Here are the wc counts
> for a text file I created, imported into Libre Office, then
> saved as an odt and as a doc file and finally re-saved
> as a txt file (the one with the 2 appended.
>
> larry@hammerhead:~/Documents/Misc$ wc Ed*
> 8 306 19456 Edmund Prescott Thiel.doc
> 80 324 17242 Edmund Prescott Thiel.odt
> 24 168 974 Edmund Prescott Thiel.txt
> 24 168 961 Edmund Prescott Thiel2.txt
> 136 966 38633 total
===== Joe original asked =====
>> Why is it that when I import a text file into libre office
>> and then export the same text as an .odt document, the
>> resulting document has a smaller word count and smaller
>> character count than the original text file has?
>>
>> Then if I save the same .odt document as a .txt file, the
>> resulting .txt file is bigger than the .odt file (actually
>> almost the same size as the original text file).
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