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Is a Times New Roman font of 12 size in MS Word, same as doing a \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}?

Edit: To be clear, the question is if Word with a 12 font and \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} are the same things, or similar enough? The suggested link has lots of information and "solutions" but nowhere it is clearly concluded if the above two are the same, or not...

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    see tex.stackexchange.com/questions/34024/… and references therein
    – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
    Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 10:35
  • @Rmano This comment says no difference, but if I replace \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} with \documentclass[12bp,a4paper]{article}, it is very different in my PDF...
    – ZeroTwo
    Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 12:36
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    @ZeroTwo 12bp is not a valid option to \documentclass{article}, so it does not set the font to 12bp, but the default font size (which is 10pt) will be used. See: tex.stackexchange.com/q/5339/47927
    – Jasper Habicht
    Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 12:52
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    \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} is not the same as size 12 in word. You have to decide yourself if it is similar enough....
    – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz
    Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 13:13
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    @ZeroTwo Well, the in the question of the very first link in the comments, Wikipedia is cited with "The 12 point of Word will be PostScript point, which in TeX would be called 12bp. A TeX pt is slightly smaller: it's 1/72.27 inch, while a bp/PostScript point is 1/72 inch." So, there you have your answer: It is different, but really not much.
    – Jasper Habicht
    Commented Jun 29, 2023 at 13:19

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