Re: Word/Character Count for Master Document with Child Document

Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.lyx.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/6/25 12:09 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2025, at 7:24 AM, Gerhard Gsänger via lyx-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Using LyX 2.4.4 and Macbook M2 and Tahoe.
>>
>> I recently split a very large LyX document into multiple child 
>> documents, and the system works really well. However, I noticed that 
>> the word and character count now only applies to individual child 
>> documents. I can’t see the total count for the entire master document.
>>
>> Is there a way to display the combined word or character count for 
>> the master document including all child documents?
>>
> I’m quite sure the word count is performed on the loaded document in 
> memory, and the whole point of having child documents is to avoid 
> having to load all the parts of a large document into LyX at once.

Child documents are loaded into memory. So this is do-able. I've also 
thought it would be useful.

This should be quite easy to do. I'll see if I can do it for 2.5.1. 
(We're presently trying to get 2.5.0 out the door.)

Riki

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