Setting font family for the whole document

This looks like the basic question but it seems like the hardest thing to me. I need to set the whole document's font style as follows :

Font Family: Times New Roman or GoudyOlSt BT Font Size: 11pt
I am doing something like below but have no effect at all : 
\fontencoding \fontfamily \fontseries \fontshape \fontsize \selectfont

Also, that would be nice to see the available font-family styles if possible. I would really appreciate if someone direct me to right way.

asked Nov 4, 2011 at 19:58 4,247 7 7 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges

Times Roman fonts are supported by mathptmx , which you can specify together with an 11pt document class option.

Commented Nov 4, 2011 at 20:10

2 Answers 2

Fonts

You could use TeX Gyre Termes, Times or txfonts. They are similar to Times New Roman (if you want to look at other fonts you should hunt for a similar serif font, see e.g. http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/seriffonts.html). Fonts are loaded and activated for a document by loading the package for the font via \usepackage . You probably want to use them with T1 encoding and to do this you should use \usepackage[T1] (see Why should I use \usepackage[T1]?).

So, for TeX Gyre Termes you'd use:

\usepackage[T1] \usepackage
\usepackage[T1] \usepackage
\usepackage[T1] \usepackage

Font size

To get 11pt font size simply add 11pt as an option to \documentclass , so if you're using the article document class you'd use \documentclass[11pt] .

Example

The following is an example to illustrate one font. I use the package lipsum to get example text.

\usepackage[T1] \documentclass[11pt] \usepackage \usepackage \begin \lipsum \end