Jean Marc
Hope you were not offended by the suggestions. As has been said the
document can easily be exported as plain ascii and a a 'wc' done on that
so I do not think the function is an urgent one. Longer term though it may
be of use as more people start using Lyx having no concept of command
invocation - i.e. they are spoon fed from a kde/gnome desktop.
Thanks for trying anyway,
James
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "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
>
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