Believe thee me, I have no complaints, nor have professors complained. It's just that when a professor makes no recommendations about word count, but specifies only pages, then I am writing that many more words than anyone else. It also means that the professor is reading that many more words than he is for anyone else. I only wanted this confirmed, so I can be on the lookout for it.
Also sprach Kenward Vaughan: > Perhaps you should include a short note on the front of the paper about a > wordcount being available for him/her should that be an issue, along with > an invitation to try out the program that created such a good-looking > finished product? > > Seriously though, I don't know what it is about (La)Tex but it always looks > better and reads more easily than any other output. Lyx makes it sooo > easy... > > Kenward > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:31:25PM -0600, Christopher M. Jones wrote: > > A doublspaced paper, with 1in margins all around, at 12pt Times New > > Roman, 1500 words, is about 5 pages in LyX. > > > > However, when a professor asks for a 1500 word essay, he says "1500 words > > (6-7 pages)." This is a more or less consistent trend: whatever the > > ex[ected page count, the word count is significantly less compared to > > what I do in LyX. It makes the difference for me, between a 20 page > > paper, and a 25 page paper. > > > > Have any other students on this list noticed this? Does LaTeX do things > > so differently from the popular word processors?
