On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Peter Nermander wrote:
> > Have any other students on this list noticed this? Does LaTeX do things > > so differently from the popular word processors? > > One thing to note when it comes to fonst: The font size does only tell you > the height. It does not tell you the width, nor things like x-height which > normally are quite relevant for readability. > > Times Roman and Times New Roman are not the same fonst (the latter is, I > believe, MicroSofts own "Roman style" font). > > It might also be that TeX is better on kerning and using ligatures (does > Word even know what ligatures is??). There are many possibilities beside kerning, ligature and fonts type that could make a different length of articles. Let's say \parskip as an example. LaTeX and other wordproc maybe made a different standard \parskip. I have seen in itemize environments. Itemize in LaTeX (by default) have \parskip about 1 spacingtext and no space in wordproc (at least in StarOffice/Abiword). More complex, if you combine text and table... Wayan
