Created a simple project with a title page, a chapter folder, and a couple of scenes. There are 24 words total in the scenes, plus a bunch more in the title page.
When I open up “Project Statistics,” I have “Count current compile group only” checked. It reports 24 words, which is what I expect (the title page has been excluded, as described in the compile settings).
When I open up “Show Project Targets,” it shows 51 words, which would seem to include the title page. Opening up the options, it shows both “Count documents included in compile only” and “Target applies to current compile group only” checked.
Shouldn’t these match?
Again, love the program, just trying to help! (please don’t cry)
No, these aren’t intended to match, simply because project targets has to keep a live count and is thus much rougher. The project statistics are always more accurate - they reflect the word count that you will get when you compile. With various elements added or not counted depending on Compile settings (which can be set to filter out certain documents from the word count), this may differ from the project targets, which has to be much faster given that it is calculated while you are typing and therefore cannot do the heavy-duty work of compiling in the background in order to generate the correct count.
Got it. Target count is less accurate for performance reasons. I thought there might be a logical explanation like that, but on the surface it’s a little bewildering. As long as I understand the discrepancy, it really isn’t a very big deal.
Dude, don’t you ever sleep? (I know, I know, just not this week)
By the way, I’ve been lurking around these boards for almost a year now (since I first heard about Scrivener), and your avatar was driving me crazy. I knew I recognized it, but I couldn’t quite place it. I had a vague idea that it had something to do with a movie about a guy taking care of a forest in a dome in space. About three weeks ago I decided to find out for sure, so I looked around a bit, and sure enough I discovered Silent Running (which I then re-watched, curtesy of Netflix). I was about 5 years old the last time I saw it (I compared notes with my mother) which would have been over thirty years ago! It stuck with me subconsciously until your avatar brought it back to the surface. Scary.
Thanks - I think we probably need to make the discrepancy between the statistics more obvious somewhere; in fact they became even more different only a few days ago, when I added the ability to filter out documents from the word count. So the novel template, for instance, excludes the title page and chapter titles from the word count during Compile (which is what project statistics uses - it does a background compile to get the accurate count), which it couldn’t do before 2.0.
Glad you re-discovered Silent Running! I saw it as a kid around thirty years ago, too, and my main memory is of being devastated when one (two?) or the robots, Huey et al, got spaced or destroyed somehow. I bought it on DVD and watched it again a couple of years ago. It’s a good movie, although it seems rather slow these days - although it’s probably not a good sign that I had more patience when I was five, hmm. You could see a lot of the design from that film (along with 2001 obviously) go into the superb Moon of a couple of years ago.
It’s the cheesy “flower power” soundtrack that really makes it a classic
“Louie” was the robot that bought it while they were passing through Saturn’s rings. Huey is run over by Lowell, and Dewey is the one that stays behind to care for the forest at the end.
Haven’t seen Moon yet, but I just added it to my queue (I was interested in it when it came out, but like so many things, I just didn’t have the time, then I forgot about it). Being a huge Pixar fan, I was very interested to learn that Silent Running heavily influenced Andrew Stanton when he was writing WALL-E.
I wish you hadn’t reminded me of the fate of Louie and Huey. I think Huey was my favourite as a kid - even though they are all identical apart from colour.
I’m pretty sure the astrobots getting destroyed in (can I bear to say the name?) The Phantom Menace was a direct lift from the fates of Louie and Huey, too.
