[Q] how to use times package

[hun-soo hong]

> > 7) Personally I find ugly the standard Roman fonts produced by the
> > majority of my Tex colleagues, particularly they are difficult to
> > see with a previewer. I strictly use for my Word documents only the
> > canonical Postscript fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier) and avoid
> > this difficulty (but naive Word users will make a hell of mixing
> > up whatever fancy font their PC has). (CON/PRO or NULL/NULL)
>
> \usepackage{times} gives you Times as the main font, Helvetica as
> the sans serif font and Courier for typewriter fonts.
>

I am a fairly novice-level user of latex, and I am certainly
unaware of using plian tex.

I'd heard that times packages can help me use Times as the main font,
Helvetica as the sans serif font and Courier for typewriter fonts.
So that I tried yesterday to use that times package in Latex, but
I could not make a success. I do not know how to change following
trivial latex document to use that times-package.

------cut-here-------------------
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
I want this sentense to be printed or to be displayed in Times fonts,
and verb|following sentence| to be printed in courier font, my favorite
font for a font to print a source code.
\begin{verbatim}
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
printf("hello tex users~\n");
return 0;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
------cut-here-------------------

My first thought was that in order to use times package, I should
find something that is related to times-package, by that thought
I guessed that $CTAN/fonts/metrics/adobe/times is the suspected.
But after downloading that $CTAN/fonts/metrics/adobe/times, I
could not make any progress in using times.

Is there anybody explains me the method of using times?

For your information....
[0] I installed tex in a new machine yesterday, using
$CTAN/systems/unix/web2c/web2c-7.0/texk.tar.gz &&
texmflib.tar.gz.
Therefore, in /usr/local/share/texmf of that machine,
there are following files.
README doc/ fonts/ metafont/ tex/
VERSION-7.2 dvips/ ls-R metapost/ web2c/
bibtex/ fontname/ makeindex/ mft/

[1] following is the list of $CTAN/fonts/metrics/adobe/times.
times/
00Contents
README

times/dvips:
00Contents config.ptm ptm.map

times/tex:
00Contents omlptmcm.fd omxpsycm.fd t1ptm.fd
8rptm.fd omsptm.fd ot1ptm.fd ts1ptm.fd
omlptm.fd omspzccm.fd ot1ptmcm.fd

times/tfm:
00Contents ptmbi7t.tfm ptmr8r.tfm ptmro8c.tfm
psyr.tfm ptmbi8c.tfm ptmr8t.tfm ptmro8r.tfm
psyro.tfm ptmbi8r.tfm ptmrc.tfm ptmro8t.tfm
ptmb.tfm ptmbi8t.tfm ptmrc7t.tfm ptmrr8re.tfm
ptmb7t.tfm ptmbo.tfm ptmrc8t.tfm ptmrr8rn.tfm
ptmb8c.tfm ptmbo7t.tfm ptmri.tfm ptmrre.tfm
ptmb8r.tfm ptmbo8c.tfm ptmri7t.tfm ptmrrn.tfm
ptmb8t.tfm ptmbo8r.tfm ptmri8c.tfm zpsycmrv.tfm
ptmbc.tfm ptmbo8t.tfm ptmri8r.tfm zptmcmr.tfm
ptmbc7t.tfm ptmr.tfm ptmri8t.tfm zptmcmrm.tfm
ptmbc8t.tfm ptmr7t.tfm ptmro.tfm zpzccmry.tfm
ptmbi.tfm ptmr8c.tfm ptmro7t.tfm

times/vf:
00Contents ptmbi8c.vf ptmrc.vf ptmro8t.vf
ptmb.vf ptmbi8t.vf ptmrc7t.vf ptmrre.vf
ptmb7t.vf ptmbo.vf ptmrc8t.vf ptmrrn.vf
ptmb8c.vf ptmbo7t.vf ptmri.vf zpsycmrv.vf
ptmb8t.vf ptmbo8c.vf ptmri7t.vf zptmcmr.vf
ptmbc.vf ptmbo8t.vf ptmri8c.vf zptmcmrm.vf
ptmbc7t.vf ptmr.vf ptmri8t.vf zpzccmry.vf
ptmbc8t.vf ptmr7t.vf ptmro.vf
ptmbi.vf ptmr8c.vf ptmro7t.vf
ptmbi7t.vf ptmr8t.vf ptmro8c.vf

[Timothy Murphy]

hun-soo hong <hun...@digital.kaist.ac.kr> writes:

>I'd heard that times packages can help me use Times as the main font,
>Helvetica as the sans serif font and Courier for typewriter fonts.
>So that I tried yesterday to use that times package in Latex, but
>I could not make a success. I do not know how to change following
>trivial latex document to use that times-package.

>------cut-here-------------------
>\documentstyle{article}
>\begin{document}

...

The "correct" thing to say is

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{times}

Basically, you need the files in $CTAN/macros/latex/packages/psnfss ,
and also $CTAN/fonts/psfonts/lw35psnfss.zip ,
where eg CTAN=ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan .

You may need to update your file .../dvips/psfonts.map ;
read the psnfss documentation (eg psnfss2e.tex) carefully.

Alternatively, if you are on a Unix system,
it might well be quicker to install teTeX
($CTAN/systems/unix/teTeX),
as this has everything well-arranged.

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: t...@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland