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I have an assignment which I have written in Latex and I realized the prof has restrictions on Font Size and Font Name. The specification indicates that the document must be presented using "Times New Roman" font with size of 12.

using : 

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

outputs a result which is expected to be the same font size as 12 on Microsoft Word (presumably) - however, when compared to a printed document using Word, the font size of latex is smaller (around 11 on Word).

I read some where that Word uses bp so I changed it to 12bp but it made it even smaller.

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    Do you use \usepackage{times}? LaTeX uses Computer Modern as default font.
    – Ignasi
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 15:50
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    @Ignasi The package times is obsolete.
    – Sverre
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 16:19
  • @Sverre Thanks, I didn't know it. In any case I was more interested into pointing that LaTeX uses computer modern which is not times.
    – Ignasi
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 16:24
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    @Ignasi I use \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Times New Roman}
    – Kyle
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 16:31

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Do not worry about these things. 99.9 % of people who ask for "Times New Roman 12pt" don't know what they mean by "Times New Roman", and they definitely don't know the first thing about point sizes. What they mean is that they want something that looks like what they get in their MS Word documents with Times New Roman 12pt.

Just use this and you're good to go:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tgtermes} % times font
\begin{document}

\end{document}

You can't give 12bp as an option to the article class, as it only knows 10pt, 11pt, and 12pt. If you try to specify 12bp it'll just give you the warning Unused global option(s): [12bp] and fall back on the default setting 10pt.

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    does this make any changes at all? because it looks exactly like the latex default font
    – Kyle
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 16:39
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    @Kyle No. Remove \usepackage{tgtermes} and you'll see the latex default font.
    – Sverre
    Commented Oct 1, 2015 at 16:40

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