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?
Perhaps other WP use different line-spacing. You can change the line spacing in LyX in the document dialog. Also, this may be a font issue. If you are using times font, then switch to computer modern: the times font is quite narrow.
