Am Montag, den 17.06.2019, 12:15 +0200 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > LyX has currently an issue that the word count statistics does not > include > citations.
And neither bibliography entries, pretty references and so on (everything expandable). > I am unfortunately afraid that there might not be agreement whether > these are proper words or not, depending on the publisher/journal. > > In your experience with different publications, how many words > constitute these? > [1] : 0/1* > (Goldman et al., 1976) : 0/1/4* Depending on the style, it is impossible to guess. Some styles require to spell out all authors. > I tend to implement the starred version unless it causes > controversy... > Alternatively we could count citation words separately, but I do not > like > this solution. The only reliable solution is to count in the output. I have setup an own converter PDF4->PDFc that processes the PDF with pdftotext and wc and outputs the result in an external dialog (vie zenity). See attached bash script. This gives somewhat reliable results. Jürgen
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