Re: Word/Character Count for Master Document with Child Document
Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]>
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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 -- lyx-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users