Hi!
> I finally have the story editor working (long story). I'd like to make a
> request for the next
> update - apart from the spellchecker I hear is on its way - and that's a word
> count. I'm
> going nuts looking for a nice, lightweight editor with a word count feature.
> The closest
> thing out there is AbiWord, but I can't take looking at those jaggy fonts.
Such features are easy to implement as a Python script. See the attached
file :)
Henning
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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-
# DO NOT remove above line
from scribus import *
import os, re
def msgBox(msg):
# replace with "gdialog" or "xterm -e dialog" if needed
# it would be nice, if the plugin would provide a msgbox
# and a file selector
cmd = 'kdialog --msgbox "%s"'
os.system(cmd % msg)
def wordsplit(text):
word_pattern = "([A-Za-z???????]+)"
words = []
for x in re.split(word_pattern, text):
if re.match(word_pattern, x):
words.append(x)
return words
if HaveDoc():
words = 0
sel_count = SelectionCount()
if sel_count:
source = "selected textframe"
if sel_count > 1: source += "s" #plural
for i in range(sel_count):
text = GetText(GetSelectedObject(i))
words += len(wordsplit(text))
else:
source = "whole document"
for page in range(PageCount()):
GotoPage(page)
for obj in GetAllObjects():
text = GetText(obj)
words += len(wordsplit(text))
if words == 0: words = "No"
msgBox("%s words counted in %s" % (words, source))
else:
msgBox("Not document open")
