> > this will be only informative counter. one reason is the different views > > what is to be counted, > > LyX should display the following (as Word and other word processors do):
please can you check whether Word count characters in automatically inserted chars (like the number of chapter) and pasted TOC? > - number of paragraphs chrrm, is there an easy way how to recognize paragraph begining inside the loop for (DocIterator dit = from ; dit != to ; dit.forwardPos()) ? > > the second one and much harder to implement is the different number of > actually typesetted chars > > by latex. > > We should only count the number of characters the user inserted to the main is this the way other processors proceed? > window without using ERT. So that e.g. "???" is counted as one character > although LyX converts it in the background to "\texteuro{}". i just exploited the current word counting - which counts the ERTs. this can be discussed as seperate issue elsewhere. pavel