Instead of having to open the stats window to see the word count for the project, it would be great if it always showed in the bottom of the edit area like it does for a single Scrivening (if I’m using the right term)…
If I click on a folder containing several Scrivenings (docs) it shows the combined wordcount for all of them.
If I click on a chapter folder, it shows the combined wordcount for that entire chapter.
If I click on the Draft folder, it shows the combined wordcount for the entire manuscript.
In other words, no matter what level I’m on in the Binder, the “footer” (I don’t know the right term) below the middle part of the window (where the Editor or corkboard shows up) always shows a wordcount.
That’s how it (already) works in the Mac version. When the Windows version gets it I’ve no idea — as I don’t speak for L&L — but L&L, in the guise of Keith himself, has said that feature parity is the aim. So unless he plans to take it out of the Mac it’s fairly certain that it will be in the Windows version eventually.
Yes, this will indeed be coming to the Windows version. There’s a limitation in 1.x on Windows whereby each text in a scrivenings session is in its own text box - this causes lots of other limitations as well as the word count only showing the count for the current section - such as not being able to select text across sections, or apply formatting across sections, and making it more difficult to put all of that text into a page layout view. On the Mac version, scrivenings text acts just like one long, single text, all inside the same text box or editor, and so it can all be placed inside a page layout view, and the word count automatically shows everything in there. The Windows team already has all of this in place for a future version, so it’s definitely coming.
