Font with correct density?
I'm writing a paper for university and my professor has some formal specification. We shall use Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma as fonts. Clearly he thougth about Word when specifying this. So I searched for a fitting font in PDFLaTeX. As I want to write with serifs, I looked for one similar to Times New Roman and found newtx.
Now I want to know if this has the correct density (is this the correct term?), so if I can write as much characters as my colleagues using word and one of the mentioned fonts and not more. (Our limit is given in pages.)
My question: Has newtx a density similar to Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma?
If there are any references for looking up such values, I'd like to learn this too.
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I'm writing a paper for university and my professor has some formal specification. We shall use Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma as fonts. Clearly he thougth about Word when specifying this. So I searched for a fitting font in PDFLaTeX. As I want to write with serifs, I looked for one similar to Times New Roman and found newtx.
Now I want to know if this has the correct density (is this the correct term?), so if I can write as much characters as my colleagues using word and one of the mentioned fonts and not more. (Our limit is given in pages.)
My question: Has newtx a density similar to Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma?
If there are any references for looking up such values, I'd like to learn this too.
fonts pdftex
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As Times and Arial have very different "density" I would say that the professor doesn't care. But if you are unsure: write two pages and show him the result and ask.
– Ulrike Fischer
3 hours ago
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I'm writing a paper for university and my professor has some formal specification. We shall use Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma as fonts. Clearly he thougth about Word when specifying this. So I searched for a fitting font in PDFLaTeX. As I want to write with serifs, I looked for one similar to Times New Roman and found newtx.
Now I want to know if this has the correct density (is this the correct term?), so if I can write as much characters as my colleagues using word and one of the mentioned fonts and not more. (Our limit is given in pages.)
My question: Has newtx a density similar to Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma?
If there are any references for looking up such values, I'd like to learn this too.
fonts pdftex
edited 3 hours ago
Bernard
173k776204
asked 3 hours ago
K-HBK-HB
1335
I'm writing a paper for university and my professor has some formal specification. We shall use Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma as fonts. Clearly he thougth about Word when specifying this. So I searched for a fitting font in PDFLaTeX. As I want to write with serifs, I looked for one similar to Times New Roman and found newtx.
Now I want to know if this has the correct density (is this the correct term?), so if I can write as much characters as my colleagues using word and one of the mentioned fonts and not more. (Our limit is given in pages.)
My question: Has newtx a density similar to Times New Roman, Arial or Tahoma?
If there are any references for looking up such values, I'd like to learn this too.
fonts pdftex
fonts pdftex
edited 3 hours ago
Bernard
173k776204
asked 3 hours ago
K-HBK-HB
1335
edited 3 hours ago
Bernard
173k776204
asked 3 hours ago
K-HBK-HB
1335
edited 3 hours ago
Bernard
173k776204
edited 3 hours ago
Bernard
173k776204
edited 3 hours ago
Bernard
173k776204
173k776204
asked 3 hours ago
K-HBK-HB
1335
asked 3 hours ago
K-HBK-HB
1335
asked 3 hours ago
K-HBK-HB
1335
1335
3
As Times and Arial have very different "density" I would say that the professor doesn't care. But if you are unsure: write two pages and show him the result and ask.
– Ulrike Fischer
3 hours ago
add a comment |
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As Times and Arial have very different "density" I would say that the professor doesn't care. But if you are unsure: write two pages and show him the result and ask.
– Ulrike Fischer
3 hours ago
3
3
As Times and Arial have very different "density" I would say that the professor doesn't care. But if you are unsure: write two pages and show him the result and ask.
– Ulrike Fischer
3 hours ago
As Times and Arial have very different "density" I would say that the professor doesn't care. But if you are unsure: write two pages and show him the result and ask.
– Ulrike Fischer
3 hours ago
add a comment |
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There's a simple (and not necessarily correct) test you can do: Using the package typoaid you may look at values like the number of characters per width (tychperwidth) and maybe the values from the font table.
Compiling (as reference) the following document with Times New Roman:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{fontspec}
setmainfont{Times New Roman}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
I get values like
On the other hand, with nimbusserif and pdflatex I get
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{nimbusserif}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
And finally with newtxtext and pdflatex:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{newtxtext}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
That shows how you may get very similar result. Please note that you may get even better results than your colleagues by using proper hyphenation with babel and the enhancements offered by microtype.
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There's a simple (and not necessarily correct) test you can do: Using the package typoaid you may look at values like the number of characters per width (tychperwidth) and maybe the values from the font table.
Compiling (as reference) the following document with Times New Roman:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{fontspec}
setmainfont{Times New Roman}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
I get values like
On the other hand, with nimbusserif and pdflatex I get
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{nimbusserif}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
And finally with newtxtext and pdflatex:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{newtxtext}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
That shows how you may get very similar result. Please note that you may get even better results than your colleagues by using proper hyphenation with babel and the enhancements offered by microtype.
answered 3 hours ago
TeXnicianTeXnician
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There's a simple (and not necessarily correct) test you can do: Using the package typoaid you may look at values like the number of characters per width (tychperwidth) and maybe the values from the font table.
Compiling (as reference) the following document with Times New Roman:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{fontspec}
setmainfont{Times New Roman}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
I get values like
On the other hand, with nimbusserif and pdflatex I get
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{nimbusserif}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
And finally with newtxtext and pdflatex:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{newtxtext}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
That shows how you may get very similar result. Please note that you may get even better results than your colleagues by using proper hyphenation with babel and the enhancements offered by microtype.
answered 3 hours ago
TeXnicianTeXnician
25.6k63390
add a comment |
There's a simple (and not necessarily correct) test you can do: Using the package typoaid you may look at values like the number of characters per width (tychperwidth) and maybe the values from the font table.
Compiling (as reference) the following document with Times New Roman:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{fontspec}
setmainfont{Times New Roman}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
I get values like
On the other hand, with nimbusserif and pdflatex I get
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{nimbusserif}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
And finally with newtxtext and pdflatex:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{newtxtext}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
That shows how you may get very similar result. Please note that you may get even better results than your colleagues by using proper hyphenation with babel and the enhancements offered by microtype.
answered 3 hours ago
TeXnicianTeXnician
25.6k63390
There's a simple (and not necessarily correct) test you can do: Using the package typoaid you may look at values like the number of characters per width (tychperwidth) and maybe the values from the font table.
Compiling (as reference) the following document with Times New Roman:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{fontspec}
setmainfont{Times New Roman}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
I get values like
On the other hand, with nimbusserif and pdflatex I get
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{nimbusserif}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
And finally with newtxtext and pdflatex:
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{newtxtext}
usepackage{typoaid}
begin{document}
tychperwidth{rmfamily}par
tyfonttable{rmfamily}
end{document}
That shows how you may get very similar result. Please note that you may get even better results than your colleagues by using proper hyphenation with babel and the enhancements offered by microtype.
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As Times and Arial have very different "density" I would say that the professor doesn't care. But if you are unsure: write two pages and show him the result and ask.
– Ulrike Fischer
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