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? > -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
