word counter

[losangesable]

I use Sigil and PageEdit to write short stories and would appreciate a word counter. Thanks.

[kevinhendricks]

Then make any request for new features on Mobileread.com Sigil User's Forum so that interested users can comment.

Not here. This is for actual bug reports.

[dougmassay]

Also note that although people are certainly free to use Sigil/PageEdit in any way they see fit, we did not design (nor recommend) them as authorial tools. Authorial features will likely be a hard sell because of that.

[losangesable]

Also note that although people are certainly free to use Sigil/PageEdit in any way they see fit, we did not design (nor recommend) them as authorial tools. Authorial features will likely be a hard sell because of that.

It's extra work to copy and paste into another tool. And PageEdit is just a text editor. But thanks for your interest in improving the tool.

[losangesable]

Then make any request for new features on Mobileread.com Sigil User's Forum so that interested users can comment.

Not here. This is for actual bug reports.

Sorry.

[dougmassay]

It's extra work to copy and paste into another tool.

There's enough import plugins for Sigil that work with full-featured authorial tools that copying and pasting is rarely required.

And PageEdit is just a text editor.

That's sort of the point. It's just a text editor. And not one with a ton of handy features. Hence your desire for it to incorporate features that other common authorial tools already have at their disposal. Copying things that word processing programs already do (and much better) was never our intention for PageEdit.

[kevinhendricks]

And Sigil in its Reports Tool (HTML reports) already gives you word counts by file and in total.

In addition, using Regular Expressions Find And Replace you can also generate a word count by checking the Text box and using the right Find and Replace search and the # count button.

[losangesable]

Sorry, I see I haven't explained myself correctly.

I don't use Sigil/PageEdit as an authoring tool.

I have my own way of writing my short stories: NotePad. No distractions.

Although it may seem incredible, it's all I need to write my short stories in the Spanish way (between 3 and 10 pages).

Then I package my story in Sigil. But in PageEdit I do make last-minute corrections. And that's when I miss a quick word counter.

I understand what you're saying. I'll look into those import add-ons. In the search function to count words (Ctrl+Alt+N) in Sigil I can't find anything. In Reports, I do see it. Although it doesn't count the same as Word... ;-) it's fine for me. I'll look into why the difference exists.

Thank you very much for your interest in my need.

Edito: I am writing to you via Google Translate. Please excuse any inconsistencies.

Edito 2: (Although it doesn't count the same as Word...) Perfect... I hadn't counted the title and the reporting tool did... today is Monday, and on Mondays "not even chickens lay eggs."

[kevinhendricks]

You must put in the proper regex to tell it what to count. Off the top of my head, something like:

\w+\b

Which should detect a sequence of word characters followed by a non-word character boundary.

Yes, what sequence of characters constitutes a "word" for the purposes of word counts is subject to debate.

[losangesable]

I'll leave it here for anyone who might be interested: in the translation of Sigil into Spanish, the WORD COUNTER is in Herramientas (Tools?) > Informes (Reports?) … Archivos HTML (HTML Files?).

Thank you both very much for your help and understanding.

Would it be too much to ask that you make a button for it?

And while you're at it, a "Save Copy" button, a diskette with a smaller one behind it.