On 27.08.08, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Les Denham wrote:
>> On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote:
>>> Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and
>>> Latin Modern Roman font.
>>> I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman
>>> (lmodern) package is preferred over the default Computer Modern
>>> Roman.
Latin Modern can be thought of as the successor of Computer Modern.
It is a "reimplementation" as outline font. It covers a wide range of
characters and symbols including true small caps and fits well with
the mathematical fonts used by LaTeX (which might be a problem for
any other font).
OTOH, I find the Latin Modern fonts too light in print (if printed
with a laser printer) and not very nice for on-screen rendering.
>>> The Times Roman font looks much better on screen and this is the only
>>> difference I could tell from a brief look.
For on-screen viewing (e.g. of generated PDF) I'd recommend the Vera
family ("Bera Serif" in the Document>Settings).
Günter
