> > 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

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