I know that I can put \usepackage{times} in the preamble in order to use the Times font instead of Computer Modern for my document. But this only affects the text; the math is still typeset using Computer Modern. How can I make Latex use Times also for the math?
[Tex/LaTex] How to make the document use the Times font, both for the text and the math
fontstimes
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The mathptmx package is not the best way to load the times font as the fonts are both incomplete and a patchwork of symbols from different sources.
Among the free fonts, you best choice today is probably newtx (alternatively, on older distributions, you have txfonts, but they have some spacing problems):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\usepackage{newtxmath}
\begin{document}
$y = f(x)$
$\mathbf{y=f(x)}$
{\boldmath$y=f(x)$}
\end{document}
One thing I like to do, which might be related to what you want, is to put this in my header:
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}
It changes all my body text to Times, but is not the same as
\usepackage{times}
because it doesn't change the typewriter font to Courier, and it doesn't change the sans-serif font to Helvetica; it leaves both of those as the standard Computer Modern versions.
Best Answer
Probably the most common solution at present using free fonts is
mathptmxThis package supersedes
timesandmathptm.The commercial
mathtimeis available in a 'lite' version in a free (cost) package, but you need to pay for the full version. See http://www.pctex.com/mtpro2.htmlAs noted in the answer by mafp, the newer
newtxbundle is now available and addresses issues present inmathptmx.