Dear Daniel, thanks for your comments and agreeing with the benefit of such a function. I was not sure, if maybe there is a solution to fulfill this with the recent version of LyX somehow. Thank you also for making clear, that there is not another possibility at present.
For some time I have used Scrivener, which has an extreme good statistics-function, which is also able to set targets (session, word or character) and to also select the whole text or just sections out of it. This was so comfortable, that the procedure you described (keeping track of the differences manually, also section wise, by checking before and after) seems so ineffective, that I normally resign. But well: will have to be disciplined and write an enhancement request, good idea! All best Jess Am 11. Dez. 2018, 21:15 +0100 schrieb Daniel <[email protected]>: > On 11/12/2018 10:38, jezZiFeR wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there any possibility to keep the window of tools/statistics opened > > while working in LyX (I use 2.3.1.-1 on OSX10.13.6)? This woulöd be so > > comfortable. Even better would be a possibility to document the daily > > progress. There is no such function, or am I wrong? > > Thanks, all best > > Jess > > > > Hi, > > Its not possible because the window is modal > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window). I think this could be > easily changed but that's not enough since it would not be updated > automatically. But I guess that's not that tricky to implement either. > > LibreWriter, for example, shows the word count in the status bar. That > might be another solution. Why this is not implemented in LyX might be > because the word count - unlike in LibreWriter - is just a rough > estimate of the word count in the type setted version. > > However, I agree that it would be great if LyX kept track of the number > of words written since the file was last opened, or a counter reset, or > so. You can file an enhancement request at > https://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. > > For now, you need to keep track of the differences manually by checking > once before and after your work is "done".... > > Daniel >
