Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Package times - no bold fonts

[adkdk]

To write my master's thesis, I have to use Times New Roman or Arial font. However, when adding

\usepackage{times}

to my document, I can see no bold fonts (e.g. in chapter titles). What's wrong?
I'm using MiKTeX 2.8 and report document class.

[Montag]

http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/
=>
"Serif Fonts"
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"Times"
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\usepackage{mathptmx}

That should do it.
(It's a clone.)

But an answer for what might be wrong with the Times-package, I have no idea. I've never used that before. I always use command I quoted.

If the problem lies within your document class or your preamble, this answer in its whole might be useless to you. I don't know what have set up in your preamble.

[localghost]

The times package is obsolete. So, try an alternative as enrico already suggested [1]. Another possibilty is the txfonts(b) package.

[1] View topic: Obsolete packages and document classes - Avoid usage!


Best regards
Thorsten

[adkdk]

OK. The culprit was package "polski". This is Polish internationalization package for LaTeX. With this package enabled, bold fonts work neither in times, nor in mathptmx. Only some font packages, like "helvet" are working.
Bold fonts are working properly when I'm using package [polish]{babel} instead of polski. However, I'm not satisfied, because "polski" has some extra functions, e.g. printing \tan function as tg - exactly like in Polish math textbooks.

A simple solution is:

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\renewcommand{\tan}{\mathrm{tg\,}}

[localghost]

Another solution could be to borrow the definition of the concerned command from latex.ltx and modify it.

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\makeatletter
\def\tg{\mathop{\operator@font tg}\nolimits}
\makeatother

These lines go into the preamble. If you want to keep the command name, replace the middle line as follows.

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\def\tan{\mathop{\operator@font tg}\nolimits}

[adkdk]

I found that it could be done without any command modifications. The problem is with font encoding. According to polski's documentation, type:

\usepackage[T1,plmath]{polski}

and everything works like a charm

[Juanjo]

Just an additional comment. The mathptmx package does not provide bold math fonts. So, if you need them, it would be advisable to use the txfonts package. Load this package after amsmath to avoid a small conflict (both packages define commands with the same names for some integral symbols).

[davidrm]

You also have to add some encoding along with times package.

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{times}

should do it.

If you want more options, you can compile your document using xelatex and use the fontspec package.

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\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}

[Ijon Tichy]

If you reply to a very, very old discussion, please read the at least the already existing comments!

You also have to add some encoding along with times package.

No! As already told, package times is outdated. So the suggestion is not to add another encoding but to use another package instead of times.