[Tex/LaTex] How to use Times/Times Roman/Times New Roman in LaTex

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Ive been using LaTeX for a few days and have written up my entire document but am unable to change the font to any variant of Times/Times Roman/Times New Roman. I swapped from MS word on the recommendation of a friend and am absolutely loving it, especially the BibTex aspect. I am on a Mac using TeXShop.

I have tried using

\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{mathptmx}

but neither changes the font.

My preamble consists of

\documentclass[12pt]{article}       
\usepackage{geometry}
 \geometry{
 a4paper,
 total={210mm,297mm},
 left=25mm,
 right=25mm,
 top=25mm,
 bottom=25mm,
 }                      
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}           
\usepackage{graphicx}                                               
\usepackage{amssymb}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.4cm plus4mm minus3mm}
\usepackage{apalike}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{tikz}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\newcommand{\Mypm}{\mathbin{\tikz [x=1.4ex,y=1.4ex,line width=.1ex] \draw (0.0,0) -- (1.0,0) (0.5,0.08) -- (0.5,0.92) (0.0,0.5) -- (1.0,0.5);}}%
\title{Influence}
\author{}
\date{}                         % Activate to display a given date or no date
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\onehalfspacing

Best Answer

  • Get rid of the instruction

    \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

    Times Roman is a font with serifs. What good is supposed to come from selecting a sans-serif font as the main text font?

  • Replace the instruction

    \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}

    with

    \usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}

  • Other comments about your preamble:

    • A4 paper is, I believe, 210mm wide and 297mm tall. Thus, the second argument of the \geometry directive -- total={210mm,297mm} -- is redundant.

    • Still on the \geometry directive: If all four margins are supposed to be equal to 25mm, it suffices to provide the option margin=25mm.

    • No point loading the graphicx package twice, is there?

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