Ian Laurenson <hillview <at> paradise.net.nz> writes: > > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 09:18, blabla wrote: > [snip] > > I was begging for a word count plus an indication of the cursor's in a > > row to be displayed in the status bar at the bottom. > [remainder snipped] > I am already playing with word counts in the status bar. I unfortunately > sent my message to the wrong list (I wish people wouldn't have their > reply to set - hint hint :)). In short what I am playing with is > displaying a custom status bar that displays word count information when > a single selection is made. > > In the following questions I am not meaning to be awkward just trying to > work out how to implement what you want: > > Why is it useful to have the "current cursor position" displayed in the > status bar? > > What do you mean by position of the cursor, is it: > 1. X and Y coordinates? By what measurement system (or selectable): > pixels, points, inches, cms ... ? > This would be easy to implement but I can't see any advantages in a > predominantly text document. > > 2. Number of characters from left margin (or right margin for right to > left text), and number of lines down the page? > I'm not sure why this would be useful either. If there was an object in > the paragraph that shifted the text right what position should be > displayed for number of characters from left edge? If a paragraph has > line spacing of say double, what value for number of lines down the page > should be displayed - 1 for each line of actual text or two? Regardless, > currently I don't think that this would not be easy to implement. > > I.e. I would need very precise information about what is to be > displayed, and to make it high enough in my priority list good reasons > to implement it. > > Thanks, Ian >
Hi Ian, The issue of word/character count is very important because there are standards for assignments to hand in, e.g. as a writer. For instance, editors demand of a manuscript to be formatted to 30 lines per page and 60 characters per line. So, to answer your questions from my point of view: 1. I think the "position of the cursor" refers to the number of characters left of it, so that when you place the cursor at the end of the line, you can instantly see if it's about the right number of characters in that line. This explains part of 2. ... and I think it's also obvious that only the number of lines actually written should be counted. For me as a writer this is crucial... So far it's been the reason why I continued to use MS Word, which offers these functions. Thanks for your efforts! Karin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
