Add page numbers to the Ctrl+I dialog

[Goh Mifune]

One of teh best features of Win-equivalent of PyRoom Q10 is the ability to show page count as well as word count. In the preferences it can be changed, but at minimum, I think it would be useful to have it even if it is set at the default 'wordcount/25=pages' or something to that effect.

[Florian Heinle (tiax)]

Hi,

I did some testing in openoffice, with Times New Roman 12, and standard settings otherwise for pages upon pages of Lorem Ipsum. One A4 page has 46 lines, give or take a few depending on spacing between paragraphs and 631 words.

we shouldn't make this overly complicated, in respect to finding out paper size etc. So how should we determine the actual page count? I'm not quite sure if this rough estimate warrants adding another configuration option in the GUI, too much configuration is what we want to avoid with PyRoom.

Are there any default numbers for calculations like those?

[Adam Rooke (abelianr)]

I have done a bit of googling this afternoon and it seems like there are no hard and fast rules. It seems there are some standards for novel sized books, about 250-300 words per page but I have been able to find nothing specific on A4 pages.

The best way to do this would be when (if) we implement some sort of a printing system. I imagine there is some way of tapping into that in order to get number of pages accurately. I'm not sure it makes sense including such a rough calculation by default.

[Goh Mifune (gohmifune)]

A config option would be the most logical I would think. Anyone who would need it, would know what standard to go by.

For instance, I use PR, for the sake of practice for novels where every 25 lines equals a page, or every 250 words. Others may have different needs, though I imagine most are like me, publishing minded.

[Florian Heinle (tiax)]

Hm.

While this wouldn't be too difficult code-wise, it certainly would be easy to get the "figuring out what to count"-part wrong.

We just had a conversation on IRC about it, I'll sum it up:

1) different paper sizes create a lot of problems, so we can't really use fixed numbers
2) additionally, there's different different criteria one might count: line count, word count, character count. All have their pros and cons
3) Making all this configurable (see pt 1) would add a lot of complexity (another tab) to our preferences gui and hence more distraction

We decided to remove this issue from milestone 0.4 and instead plan to offer it as a plugin later.