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tecosaur / LaTeX-Utilities

An add-on to LaTeX Workshop that provides some features that go beyond the bare essentials
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Character count #159

Closed SPAstef closed 9 months ago

SPAstef commented 4 years ago

Is it possible to get a character count, alongside the word count?

tecosaur commented 4 years ago

Quite possibly. All this extension does is call, and parse the output of texcount. Anything that can do, this extension should be able to (with appropriate tweaking) tell you about.

I'm afraid that due to me moving to another editor I'm no longer maintaining this extension :slightly_frowning_face: (sorry to disappoint), but don't let that from stop you from making this happen :slightly_smiling_face:.

I strongly encourage you to take a peek at this extension's code, then give implementing it a shot! If your experience is anything like mine, this will be way easier than you expect :smiley:

I'd happily answer questions on the internals of this extension, and I'd be thrilled to accept a PR on this.

SPAstef commented 4 years ago

So, I am graduating like next month in CS, and I started using latex really just a couple weeks ago to write my thesis, and have no experience with VS Code extensions (I know very well C, I'm decent at Java, PHP and Bash). Anyway, since you are so kind, if I have time I will gladly give a peek here and there. I have been able to get character count, but not both (this is a limitation of TexCount, it would require 2 calls to get both, at least that's what I understood reading the docs)

tecosaur commented 4 years ago

@SPAstef if you can implement this, that would be marvelous :) I'd be happy to help out here and there.

SPAstef commented 4 years ago

@tecosaur your extension is really awesome, I always used VScode and changing environment is always a struggle (also 90% of editors are ugly and don't have intellisense), and I love having the PDF side by side, being used to MS Word it almost feels like amn over-power WYSIWYG. When I get some time, I will certainly give it a look!

dbourrion commented 2 years ago

Hi. That command line looks working in a Linux terminal texcount -char -sum -1 the_file.tex but I have no idea how to put this in a VSC extension :(

leoleoasd commented 9 months ago

I believe this is fixed. You can click on the word count on the status bar, and select character count:

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