I’m new to Scrivener and simply love it.
My question is: In the new version I see that when I choose “Inspector footnotes” the words from the footnotes are not counted as part of the word’s total number. In the “Inline footnotes” option, on the contrary, the footnotes words are taken into account. So, I do like more the inspector footnotes option, but I do need to know the exact number of words -including, of course, the text of the footnotes- (I’m on the academic field, and is a common requirement).
Although the word count in the editor footer shows just the count for the text in the editor, you can get the word count including your inspector footnotes by checking Project>Project Statistics and setting the options there to include footnotes.
Thank you for your quick reply. My question is certainly solved; nevertheless, I would really hope for a future release to have the option right in front of your eyes all the time, i.e. in the editor footer…Much easier and comfortable…
Apart from that, I’m enjoying as never before my research and writing thanks to Scrivener (so much, that I’m going to dedicate one of my classes to the use of Scrivener. My students need to know!)
With Scrivener 1.x, of course, one of the biggest request I got was for the word count in the footer bar not to include the inline comments and footnotes.
Ok, Keith, I understand (even tough I think is not that “logical” to exclude footnotes, because those are part -or should be part, generally speaking- of the published article/text, and editors will “count” them as words). My request would be if it can be set as an option in a future release…please??.. …
HI, I have the same query. I use Scrivener for writing academic essays. I have the feeling Scrivener is made rather for writers of fiction, scripts, novels, etc. and we have often to look for imaginative ways to implement elements we need. In my case these are tables (which are unfortunately much easier to create and manage in Word than in Scrivener) and word count, which unfortunately exlcudes footnotes. After deadlines, the number of words (including footnotes) is the most important thing a scholar has to take into account when writting an essay. This is not easy to control in Scrivener as it is programmed now. It would be great for scholars and students to implement this feature in future versions.
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