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Can anyone help me to change the font to "Times New Roman" in PDFLaTeX?
I already tried using the commands below without results:
% Font selection
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
You may use any otf or ttf font installed on your system. I tried the code you linked to both with "Times New Roman" and "Minion Pro" My Times New Roman seems not to have oldstyle nums, but Minio does
Addressing your questions in turn:
To change only the math-mode font, while leaving the text-mode font unchanged (cmr, right?), you could load either the newtxmath package or the mtpro2 (short for MathTime Professional II) package. (Note that the latter package isn't free; however, a subset of the fonts, called the "lite" set, provides basic lettering capabilities -- but not "fancy" math fonts such as fraktur, caligraphic, curly, and blackboard bold styles -- and is free.) The mtpro2 font features "optically sized" glyphs for first-level sub- and superscript materials (aka "scriptstyle"-level materials).
In math-mode, be careful about making some symbols both bold and italics. In mathematics, each font shape and weight is generally understood to impart some special meaning. For sure, do not combine bolding and italics just for emphasis. Both newtxmath and mtpro2 provide methods for changing the slant of both lowercase and uppercase greek letters.
To make all displayed equations be set flush-left rather than centered, use the document class option fleqn.
How to set the contents of equations more compactly? Aaah, some would opine that MS Word's math mode is far too compact, leading to frequent overlaps of letters on the baseline and those in superscript or subscript position. Good news for you: Both newtxmath and mtpro2 render math expressions more compactly than does TeX's default math font (Computer Modern).
Putting these things together and simplifying some of your math code along the way leads to the following modified form of your MWE. The main substantive changes I've made are to replace the equation environment with an align environment and to replace the inner split environment with a bmatrix environment.
\documentclass[fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand\QSJ{\mathit{QSJ}} % define a couple of acronyms
\newcommand\CML{\mathit{CML}}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
L_{\CML}( \theta )
&= \Biggl(\, \prod_{g = 1}^{\QSJ - 1}
\prod_{g' = g + 1}^{\QSJ}
P\left( [ y ]_g = [ m ]_g,\ [ y ]_{g'} = [ m ]_{g'} \right)
\Biggr)\\
&= \Biggl(\, \prod_{g = 1}^{\QSJ - 1}
\prod_{g' = g + 1}^{\QSJ}
\begin{bmatrix}
\phantom{-}\Phi_2 ({\tilde \vartheta }_g,{\tilde \vartheta }_{g'},\nu_{gg'})
- \Phi_2 ({\tilde \vartheta }_g,{\tilde \phi }_{g'},\nu _{gg'})\\
- \Phi_2 ({\tilde \phi }_g,{\tilde \vartheta }_{g'},\nu _{gg'})
+ \Phi_2 ({\tilde \phi }_g,{\tilde \phi }_{g'},\nu _{gg'})
\end{bmatrix} \Biggr)
\end{split}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
For comparison, here's how the equations look like if the times (for text font) and mtpro2 (for math font) packages instead of the newtxtext and newtxmath packages. The overall look is very similar, but the output produced with help of the newtxmath package is a bit more compact.
Best Answer
If you are compiling with
pdflatex, this is one of several ways to get Times New Roman font for both math and text:\setmainfontis a command of thefontspecpackage, which you can't use with thepdflatexengine.