Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Latex Times New Roman in word

[Waldo]

Hello all, new member here.

I'm writing a document in Latex (in Times) and I'm trying to avoid writing out Latex tables. As a workaround, I'm drawing a table in Word, converting it into an image and then putting the image in a table in Latex.

Now the problem is the following. The Times New Roman used in Latex is 'cleaner' than the one used in MS Word. I do not want to spoil the look of my document by including ugly-Times in it.

My questions, therefore, are:

1. Is there a way to install or use Latex Times in Word?
2. Is there a way of including tables with Latex-Times without actually writing the whole table in the table environment?

Thanks for your time.

[localghost]

Just a well-meaning advice. Write your tables in LaTeX or stay with W0rd. Get high quality documents or stay with W0rd. You should give higher priority to the consistency of your documents and use only one application. Writing tables in LaTeX is not a big deal. And finally you are at a place where to ask for specific help in this regard.

The LaTeX font is exactly called »Nimbus Roman No9 L« and is available for free. Download sources for TTF or OTF font packages for installation on your system should be easy to find.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Montag]

Waldo, you should install OpenOffice and use a tool called "Calc2LaTeX" to export tables as a .tex-file. It's really easy. You'll find the plugin over at sourceforge.com.

[frabjous]

The "cleaner" look you notice may be more than just the font. It may also be a product of things like pair kerning (which can be turned on in Word, though I can't remember exactly how), typographical ligatures (which newer versions of Word *might* handle; not sure), and LaTeX's whitespace control. Also, I'm not sure if the TrueType version of Nimbus Roman would look exactly the same as the Type 1 version.

I'd try follow Thorsten's advice and stick to LaTeX. There are LaTeX-table helper programs out there if you google for them.

[syounis]

hi,

i tried looking for this NimbusRomNo9L font for free download and couldn't find.

could you please specify a direct link? or the name of the website or something?

thnx

[Montag]

Seriously ... ?

There you go: http://tinyurl.com/5raaqso

Maybe also useful:
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-found ... yre/termes
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/tgtermes/

[syounis]

hi,

i downloaded and installed every thing i could understand but still...

i have the problem of my supervisor who wants to edit my PDFs (generated with latex). he can't do so because of this weird font that Adobe writer (and my windows sys) don't have or recognize. what i do at the moment is that i generate a .doc document out of the .pdf at some online conversion site, then i reconvert the .doc into .pdf for my supervisor. needles to say this is way too cumbersome (and sounds pretty stupid i have to admit)

i need latex to give me a pdf document (using PDFLaTeX) written with a standard font that comes with windows (preferably Arial or TNR) which will be recognizable by Adobe writer. can someone help me sort out this issue?

i thank you all in advance

[Montag]

AFAIK Adobe's Reader can add comments to a PDF file, but the user has to have the rights to so.
I ran into that issue once, but then my supervisor wanted to print out the file and add the comments via pen, so I stop looking for a solution.
I remember that I didn't figure out how to give the user the right to add a comment/edit the PDF file. This was at least 2-3 years ago, maybe hyperref has an option for that now? But like I said, I don't remember the whole thing that much, I didn't look that much into it.

[latexhelp1]

I'm very excited about the using this font. However, I cannot figure out how to install it. I have tried to do "Install Font" from the Control Panel. Nevertheless, this does not produce any change in Word.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.

Just a well-meaning advice. Write your tables in LaTeX or stay with W0rd. Get high quality documents or stay with W0rd. You should give higher priority to the consistency of your documents and use only one application. Writing tables in LaTeX is not a big deal. And finally you are at a place where to ask for specific help in this regard.

The LaTeX font is exactly called »Nimbus Roman No9 L« and is available for free. Download sources for TTF or OTF font packages for installation on your system should be easy to find.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten