Character Count, where is it?

[stefano2003]

Am I stupid or what, doesn't QuarkExpress 4.1 allow to set the character width of a line, or count how characters have been used in a paragraph. I could only find word count.

It must be so obvious, but can't the way to do this.

Thanks - Stephen

 

[billdetty]

Evidently Quark 4.1 doesn't offer character count--there's no help topic on it and it doesn't appear in the index to the manual. (Actually this isn't much of a surprise, considering that word count is only available as a byproduct of a spelling check. Putting in a separate menu command for word count in a place people might think to look for it would taken what--a whole thirty minutes of programming time, maybe?)

It looks as if you're saying you also want to set the number of characters in a line, as distinct from the width of a text box or the margins of a paragraph. If that's the case, you can't do that. (And with a proportional font that's not how you'd want to do what I imagine you're trying to achieve anyway.)