Remy
Excellent idea, it could even be broken down to give the work count in
respective sections/chapters/abstract/appendices?.
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Anecdote
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Yesterday on our user support line I had a user wondering why Word 98 (for
Mac) could not save as Word 97 (for PC). She thought this odd because she
imagined Word document formats were some sort of standard. I spent a good
deal of time explaining that Word and Microsoft and standards do got go
together. I explained to her there was a better way but because she was a
a particular type of MacUser I did not explain what it was because it
would have fried her brain! (Disclaimer: Some MacUsers are sensible - they
run Linux!)
Rhetorical Question
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Why do academics use word? It is crap for scientific writing. It does not
support references correctly and documents fall apart when exchanged
between different architectures?
Thanks to the LyX team for a great product.
James
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Remy Kolessar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was recently thinking about a feature that would be nice to have
> included in LyX, namely a word counter option. Indeed, a lot a Journal
> and Conference articles are often required a certain maximum number of
> words, specially for abstract or synopsis.
>
> Of course, you can use the spell checking option which gives the number
> of checked words in a document, but that would be very nice to have a
> direct access to this information.
>
> Regards, and long live LyX and the LyX Team!
>
> Remy
>
James Jarvis
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