Bruce Pourciau wrote:
If you don't _have_ to use Times, why not choose Palatino? It is a
beautiful face, unlike Times. I'm happy as a clam -- boldface and all --
with \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} in the preamble.
How well does that work with PDF files?
One reason I use Times/Helvetica/Courier (the obsolete packages document
notwithstanding) is that they are Adobe-native fonts. They may not be
the most aesthetically pleasing (I have no eye for typefaces in any
case), but they work pretty reliably with PDF files, and almost
everything I generate ends up in PDF files. Assuming I'm using Times,
if I have to choose between a close match between the math and text
fonts or having bold symbols, I'll typically take the bold symbols. I
don't produce books, and for pretty much everything else Times without
mathptmx seems good enough to me.
On the other hand, I recognize that there are folks who will want
mathptmx when they use Times, and won't need bold symbols. It would be
nice if there were a way in the document settings to select/deselect
mathptmx, though.
/Paul
