> 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??). /Peter
