Change font weight

[Raisa Pulley]

Hello! When generating a text with Times New Roman, I noticed that the font weight is weaker than I usually see with texts in Word. How can I change the font weight? Thank you!

[Peter Flynn]

If you're using pdflatex, the Times is probably an old Adobe PostScript version which is different to Microsoft's version. If you use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex you can use the TrueType or OpenType versions which may be more up to date (TeX Gyre Termes is the name of the Times equivalent). In addition, they may support font tweaks like making bold bolder (never tried). If there's no-one here with suggestions, there are several font gurus on the Discord TeX server who can correct me.

On Wed 12 Feb 2025, 18:47 Raisa Pulley, <rais...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello! When generating a text with Times New Roman, I noticed that the font weight is weaker than I usually see with texts in Word. How can I change the font weight? Thank you!

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[Raisa Pulley]

Thank you! The compilator issue helped. I was using PDFLatex yes. 

[Gildas Cotomale]

Le jeudi 13 février 2025 à 14:10:23 UTC+1, Raisa Pulley a écrit :

Thank you! The compilator issue helped. I was using PDFLatex yes. 

But with what package or set of instructions do you load Times?

Did you tried TeX Gyre Termes as mentionned by Peter?

You can also play with (one each time) the following to see what works better for you:

%\usepackage{times} % I think it's Adobe TX, that only set serif

%\usepackage{tgtermes} % this is TeX Gyre, text only

%\usepackage{mathptmx} % both text and math

%\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} % New enhanced TX, text and maths parts