[OS X TeX] Times New Roman

[Alan Munn]

On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:04 PM, <cfrees at imapmail.org>  
<cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:

> On Tue 10th Aug, 2010 at 19:15, david craig seems to have written:
>
>>
>> I've googled quite a bit but am still unsure about the answer to  
>> this question.   I need to use Times New Roman for a proposal, not  
>> Times.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> \usepackage{mathptmx}
>>
>> (found with google) do the job?  Most of the sites I found don't  
>> clearly distinguish between Times and Times New Roman.
>
> It depends on whether a "look alike" is good enough. If you need to  
> use
> TNR itself:
> http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php/Typefaces#Times_New_Roman


A much simpler alternative might also be to use XeLaTeX.

% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
Your proposal here.
\end{document}

Alan

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