I set the single space in Word and LaTeX.
But apparently LaTeX is more dense than Word. (Using 11 font in Word, using /singlespacing in LaTeX). It seems like three lines of LaTeX is only equal to 2 lines of Word. Something like that.
What's the correlation for spacing between Word and LaTeX?
What if I want to set single space in LaTeX as the effect in Word?
Updated:
I checked wikibook, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Text_Formatting#Font_Styles it seems that LaTeX's normalsize font is little bit smaller than 11pt, and large font is a little bit larger than 11pt. What can I do?
Best Answer
You mentioned spacing in your question and I'm not sure to understand you right, but let's try.
For me it seems your problem is that the algorithm of Word for layouting the text is orientated on lines (line for line) while LaTeX looks on the complete paragraph. That must result in different layouting a page in Word or LaTeX (LaTeX has much better results than Word, ever!).
So supposed you use exactly the same font (not possible as you already mentioned) the layout of a page remains different because the layout algorithmns are so different.
I remember there is a German site with two files in Word and LaTeX showing the same text with nearly same layout (I have to search for it and will do it if you want to see this side).
Conclusion:
Word and LaTeX are different programs and results in different page layouts. LaTeX has the better algorithm for layouting and has a good build in typography. With Word you must do the typography by your own.