I have downloaded the Times New Roman font and put it into .local/fonts where it should be (my OS is Fedora 17 and I use TexLive 2012). It is recognized by LibreOffice and LyX. LibreOffice displays correctly the Romanian characters ș,ț,Ș,Ț and even converting the LibreOffice document to pdf keeps them visible and rightly displayed, but when I write a document in LyX using Times New Roman and XeTex compilation, even though I see them in the input document, the pdf output displays four squares instead of the desired characters. I expected that, since the command fc-list :lang=ro | Times does not display anything, so it's an incompatibility between Times New Roman and Romanian language (which I can't explain since LibreOffice correctly displays the four characters). How can I solve this? Do I need a special Times New Roman font? I haven't found one, it's almost 2013 and there's no Times New Roman for the Romanian language used in LyX with XeTex 🙂
[Tex/LaTex] XeTex – Times New Roman font for Romanian characters ș, ț, Ș and Ț
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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
I'm not sure what's supposed to be best. The following methods work well, though.
For the Times (New) Roman text font, you could choose (via \setmainfont)
Times New RomanXITSTeX Gyre TermesStix Two Text(see http://stixfonts.org/ for more information)
For a Times (New) Roman-like math font, first load the unicode-math package and then load (via \setmathfont)
XITS MathTeX Gyre Termes MathStix Two Math.
Alternatively, just use
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
First Addendum: A personal comment on the mostly minuscule differences between Times (aka Times Roman) and Times New Roman. To the best of my knowledge, there are only two readily-noticeable differences among the two fonts when using Latin letters (more differences occur with Greek letters):
the italic lowercase letter
z: it's "swashy" with Times Roman, but non-swashy with Times New Roman; andthe
%symbol, in both upright and italic mode: the first, i.e., upper "0" symbol and the solidus (aka slash symbol) are not connected with Times New Roman, but they are connected with Times Roman.
Would you -- or anyone else who's not a rather serious font afficionado -- ever take note of these differences and say, "tut, tut, why is this document using Times if it should be using Times New Roman? (Some even less readily visible differences between the two fonts are listed on the Wikipedia page.)
Second Addendum: If you happen to have access to the commercial MathTime Professional II ("mtpro2") Times-like math font package and wish to use under either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, you should (a) load it before loading fontspec, (b) load the fontspec package with the option no-math, and (c) not load the unicode-math package at all. I.e., the relevant part of your document's preamble should look roughly like this:
\usepackage{mtpro2} % or: \usepackage[lite]{mtpro2}
%% load 'fontspec' only if we are running either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX
\usepackage{ifluatex,ifxetex}
\ifxetex \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\else\ifluatex \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\fi\fi
\usepackage[osf]{newtxtext} % or some other suitable Times-like text font
Finally, here's the code needed to produce the little table shown above; compile it with either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. (Of course, you will need to have access to the fonts Myriad Pro, Times, and Times New Roman in order to be able to compile it.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Myriad Pro}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
& \multicolumn{2}{c@{}}{``Times''-like font}\\
\cmidrule(l){2-3}
& Times & Times New Roman \\
\midrule
Text-italic ``z'' & \setmainfont{Times}[ItalicFont={Times Italic}] \textit{z}
& \setmainfont{Times New Roman} \textit{z}\\
Percent symbol & \setmainfont{Times} \%
& \setmainfont{Times New Roman} \% \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
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Solved by actually using a different type of Times New Roman font (with Romanian glyphs). Otherwhise Joseph Wright's suggestion of using the TeX Gyre Termes is a nice hack. Thank you for your help.