On Sunday 16 December 2001 16:52, Dekel Tsur wrote: > 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.
I just got through tweaking the number of pages of my 117,000 word book to be 313, including index, plus 10 for front matter. I can print 3 books per ream of paper with very little paper left over. Some of the subtleties I used to "adjust" the page count were: * Margins * Fontsize * Smallspace/Medspace/Largespace between paragraphs * Enumerate and Itemize vertical spacing * Table of Contents vertical spacing * Table of contents heading inclusion level 10point with smallspace between paragraphs, vertically condensed TOC, Enumerate and Itemize, and 1.5"left, 1"right, and .3" top and bottom was significantly under 300 pages. 12point with largespace between paragraphs, and default TOC, Enumberate and Itemize, default margins came out to almost 500 pages. I settled on 11point with medspace between paragraphs, vertically condensed TOC, Enumerate and Itemize, and 1.8"left, 1.2"right, and .3" top and bottom, and it came out to 313 pages for book, bibliography and index, plus 10 pages for TOC -- precisely the right length for a mail order book IMHO. So U can do plenty of tweaking to get your pagecount right. Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
