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+\title{Times and more Times}
+\author[Peter Abbott]{Peter Abbott\\\texttt{p.abbott@aston.ac.uk}}
+\begin{Article}
+At the UKTUG meeting on 21st January 1994, during the discussion on
+font variations, samples of fonts from different foundries were
+circulated. Adobe Times is the most common Times Roman font used in
+almost all postscript printers. Perhaps it comes as no surprise
+therefore that Monotype Times Roman is rarely mentioned.
+
+Many users seem quite happy to accept the Adobe font without question.
+It provides readable text but there is more to life that just readable
+text. I do not intend to take sides and merely present information
+about the two fonts. A sample paragraph for the two fonts
+is presented below.
+
+Examination of the \TeX\ font metric file reveals one reason for the
+differences, namely xheight and space:
+
+{\footnotesize\begin{tabular}{ll}
+Monotye Times &Adobe Times\\[5pt]
+(FAMILY TEX-RMNTM) & (FAMILY TEX-RPTMR) \\
+(FONTDIMEN & (FONTDIMEN \\
+ (SPACE R 0.333) & (SPACE R 0.25) \\
+ (STRETCH R 0.2) & (STRETCH R 0.2) \\
+ (SHRINK R 0.1) & (SHRINK R 0.1) \\
+ (XHEIGHT R 0.458) & (XHEIGHT R 0.448) \\
+\end{tabular}}
+
+These variances give rise to the
+varied appearance of the text shown in the examples. I leave the reader to
+decide which gives the best visual appeal.
+
+The Monotype Times font is available as part of the CHEST deal to
+higher education.
+
+
+\end{multicols}
+\begin{tabular}{P{.45\textwidth}P{.45\textwidth}}
+\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont
+Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
+looks like in a particular \TeX\ font. It should be stressed that not all
+\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text. We need to show most of the
+characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
+jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.
+How about ``THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER 9876543210 LAZY DOGS'' to make
+sure we show all the upper-case letters and digits? Such a paragraph would
+hardly be typical! Then there's ligatures (try and fit in words like fluffy,
+waffle, firefly, difficult) and examples of kerning (boxer, AWAY, vowel).
+But how do we put all this stuff into a paragraph that makes sense!?
+&
+\fontfamily{mnt}\selectfont
+Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
+looks like in a particular \TeX\ font. It should be stressed that not all
+\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text. We need to show most of the
+characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
+jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.
+How about ``THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER 9876543210 LAZY DOGS'' to make
+sure we show all the upper-case letters and digits? Such a paragraph would
+hardly be typical! Then there's ligatures (try and fit in words like fluffy,
+waffle, firefly, difficult) and examples of kerning (boxer, AWAY, vowel).
+But how do we put all this stuff into a paragraph that makes sense!?\\
+\Large\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont
+Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
+looks like in a particular \TeX\ font. It should be stressed that not all
+\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text. We need to show most of the
+characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
+jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.
+&
+\Large \fontfamily{mnt}\selectfont
+Our task is to create a paragraph illustrating what a typical piece of text
+looks like in a particular \TeX\ font. It should be stressed that not all
+\TeX\ fonts can be used for typesetting text. We need to show most of the
+characters in this font---for instance, something like ``the quick brown fox
+jumps over a lazy dog'' would use all the lower-case letters.\\
+\fontsize{40}{40pt}\selectfont Firefly &
+\fontsize{40}{40pt}\selectfont Firefly \\
+\multicolumn{1}{c}{Adobe Times} &
+\multicolumn{1}{c}{Monotype Times}\\
+\end{tabular}
+\begin{multicols}{2}
+\end{Article}
+\endinput