diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 750ab59c1e..583a2e75fc 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-05-27  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <lasgouttes@lyx.org>
+
+	* lyxfont.C (latexWriteStartChanges): fix character count for \noun
+
 2003-05-26  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
 
 	* LyXAction.C: LFUN_ESCAPE should be ReadOnly
diff --git a/src/lyxfont.C b/src/lyxfont.C
index 2b0ffbd34d..f3247513e2 100644
--- a/src/lyxfont.C
+++ b/src/lyxfont.C
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int LyXFont::latexWriteStartChanges(ostream & os, LyXFont const & base,
 	// \noun{} is a LyX special macro
 	if (f.noun() == ON) {
 		os << "\\noun{";
-		count += 8;
+		count += 6;
 		env = true; //We have opened a new environment
 	}
 	if (f.size() != INHERIT_SIZE) {