>>>>> "Remy" == Remy Kolessar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Remy> Hi, I was recently thinking about a feature that would be nice
Remy> to have included in LyX, namely a word counter option. Indeed, a
Remy> lot a Journal and Conference articles are often required a
Remy> certain maximum number of words, specially for abstract or
Remy> synopsis.
and then,
>>>>> "James" == James E Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
James> Excellent idea, it could even be broken down to give the work
James> count in respective sections/chapters/abstract/appendices?.
Well, I was going to have a look at it, since counting the total
number of words in a document should not be too difficult, and then
James message made me think again: either I implement a full blown
word counter which counts separately footnotes, sections appendices,
number of time the letter 'f' is used, number of occurences of the
word 'the', number of times bold+italics is used in the document,
either people will be unhappy with the feature. So I guess you'd better
stick with using spellchecking for now :)
Moreover, spellchecking a document is certainly a very good practice
before sending it to a publisher :)
JMarc
