Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > I see. IMO the LFUN way is preferable. I'll give one use case where I > would find this useful: when writing a document with length > constraints (e.g. # words, # chars), it would be nice to have the > information accessible through a shortcut on the status bar (instead > of going to where the inset was inserted). Something sligthy more > human-friendly would be nicer (e.g. words: ## chars: ## chars+spaces: > ##) instead of ## ## ## as in the patch.
OTOH LyX's statistic data is unusable (if not misleading) for such tasks in many cases anyway, since it does not account for macro expansion, bibtex- generated bibliography etc. Since I often have to consider length constraints in papers, I have set up an external statistics tool that is placed into a "PDF (Statistics)" converter chain and counts words/chars in the produced pdf file instead. Using kdialog from KDE, it pops up a dialog with more accurate statistic numbers. But of course, this tool is strictly limited to my own needs. Jürgen
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