Bug 59961

Hi vulcain,

It is a request for enhancement.

Please change the importance from normal to enhancement.

Confirmed by related Apache issue. Status set to NEW. Component set to UI. Version set to Inherited From OOo.

From an UX POV: I think this could go in a tooltip over the current word counter in the status bar, otherwise it would be even more crowded.

I tend to agree with comment #3. Either a tooltip or change this area so it cycles through different forms of display (characters, words, lines, etc.) per mouse click. I remember reading a recent discussion about changes to this part of the status bar either on the mailing lists or in another bug report, but I could not find it to reference.

@ Adolfo Jaym: Why not a mouse selection? You make mouse's right click in status bar and select how it show you the counting.

In other words like the same operation for the language or the style (the both show in status bar).

The goal of this bug is only to have a feature: a count by line. How it show you it secondary for me.

Hi Vulcain,

(In reply to comment #0)

> But some professions need more, like a counting per line. 

And this real time for each line?
(for occasional counting selecting a line or whatever is simple enough.)

thanks,
Cor

(In reply to comment #6)
> And this real time for each line?
> (for occasional counting selecting a line or whatever is simple enough.)
> 

I open this after a discussion with a french translator: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Est-il-possible-d-afficher-le-nombre-de-caracteres-saisis-td4032129.html 
If you see the Apache's bug, it's the same problem for this profession: translator: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=108826
>" My wife translates subtitles for tv programs in Brazil." 

As i understand, for TV or film subtitle we could write only some characters per line (after the screen is too small). 
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Est-il-possible-d-afficher-le-nombre-de-caracteres-saisis-td4032129.html#a4032332

I think it 's for real time for the line where is the cursor (where you write).

Setting version back from "Inherited From OOo" to what it was prior (for bugs marked enhancement), for QA tracking purposes. My mistake. Apologies.

This report would appear to be a duplicate of bug 59791. Character and column position are the same thing and the translation of subtitles for TV are mentioned in both. There are however more links and information in this later report e.g., Apache OO issue, words per line, cycling through various information displays, using a tooltip, etc. It may be more prudent to close the earlier bug as a duplicate of this one. I will leave this for Cor, Joren, or Miguel to best determine how QA want to handle this.