\title{Times and more Times}
\author[Peter Abbott]{Peter Abbott\\\texttt{p.abbott@aston.ac.uk}}
\begin{Article}
At the UKTUG meeting on 21st January 1994, during the discussion on
font variations, samples of fonts from different foundries were
circulated. Adobe Times is the most common Times Roman font used in
almost all postscript printers. Perhaps it comes as no surprise
therefore that Monotype Times Roman is rarely  mentioned.

Many users seem quite happy to accept the Adobe font without question.
It provides readable text but there is more to life that just readable
text. I do not intend to take sides and merely present information
about the two fonts. A sample paragraph for the two fonts
is presented below.

Examination of the \TeX\ font metric file reveals one reason for the
differences, namely xheight and space:

{\footnotesize\begin{tabular}{ll}
Monotye Times &Adobe Times\\[5pt]
(FAMILY TEX-RMNTM)      &       (FAMILY TEX-RPTMR)      \\
(FONTDIMEN      &       (FONTDIMEN      \\
   (SPACE R 0.333)      &          (SPACE R 0.25)       \\
   (STRETCH R 0.2)      &          (STRETCH R 0.2)      \\
   (SHRINK R 0.1)       &          (SHRINK R 0.1)       \\
   (XHEIGHT R 0.458)    &          (XHEIGHT R 0.448)    \\
\end{tabular}}

These variances give rise to the
varied appearance of the text shown in the examples.  I leave the reader to
decide which gives the best visual appeal. 

The Monotype Times font is available as part of the CHEST deal to
higher education.


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\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont
Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
looks like in a particular \TeX\ font.  It should be stressed that not all
\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text.  We need to show most of the
characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.
How about ``THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER 9876543210 LAZY DOGS'' to make
sure we show all the upper-case letters and digits?  Such a paragraph would
hardly be typical!  Then there's ligatures (try and fit in words like fluffy,
waffle, firefly, difficult) and examples of kerning (boxer, AWAY, vowel).
But how do we put all this stuff into a paragraph that makes sense!?
&
\fontfamily{mnt}\selectfont
Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
looks like in a particular \TeX\ font.  It should be stressed that not all
\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text.  We need to show most of the
characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.
How about ``THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER 9876543210 LAZY DOGS'' to make
sure we show all the upper-case letters and digits?  Such a paragraph would
hardly be typical!  Then there's ligatures (try and fit in words like fluffy,
waffle, firefly, difficult) and examples of kerning (boxer, AWAY, vowel).
But how do we put all this stuff into a paragraph that makes sense!?\\
\Large\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont
Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
looks like in a particular \TeX\ font.  It should be stressed that not all
\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text.  We need to show most of the
characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.
&
\Large \fontfamily{mnt}\selectfont
Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
looks like in a particular \TeX\ font.  It should be stressed that not all
\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text.  We need to show most of the
characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.\\
\fontsize{40}{40pt}\selectfont Firefly & 
\fontsize{40}{40pt}\selectfont Firefly \\
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Adobe Times} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Monotype Times}\\
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