Andre Poenitz wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:44:05PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote:
> > As far as I understand does LyX not have a straightforward word-count
> > routine. Often journals or publications put limitations on the number
> > of words, in which case a word-count would come in handy.
>
> I think the main problem is answering the question "What constitutes a word?"
>
> Is "I" a word? "i.e."? "a"? "b"? "a+b"? "a+\frac{4}{5b}"?
Yes to all. "I am 1.72 meters tall" has 5 words, I say.
Inline math could/should count as one word.
Display-math and similar environments might not be trivial.
Therefore one could either give several results after the count, e.g.:
basic text: 2066 words
+ figure captions: 2134 words
+ math display: 2223 words
+ <what ever>: 2342 words
or have a count-dialog that has checkboxes for en/disable each of
these count options.
I'm sure many people would use such a tool, even though it only
givew a rough indication about the number of words.
Regards,
Rob.
