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Awhile ago I posted a question about how to get a style option working  
with NFSS.  The style option contained \xipt etc calls to macros which  
aren't defined in the basic NFSS latex format (since lfonts.new doesn't  
contain such a declaration).  The funny thing that I noticed is that all  
the other styles which do call \xipt to set the font sizes work fine  
except for my locally defined thesis font.  Since I got something to work  
okay with my thesis style, I am now wondering:

1) Which is the more established packaged for using times.sty.  I have  
two, one from Tom Jones called psfonts, and another called PSNFSS.

2)  Since I had to include oldlfont.sty in the Rainer Shoepf package into  
my thesis style to get it to work, I assume that \xipt was not defined.   
What then is the proper way to set the \LARGE etc macros using ps fonts?   
Or do I just use the old \xipt and always include oldlfont.sty?



So I ask you, what package do you use that has a times.sty in it and when  
writing your own style, should you go right for the ps fonts or should you  
do some more general way via \xipt and let some other style file handle  
the mapping between ps fonts and \xipt (and hence \LARGE etc)?


The three packages with a times.sty in it that I know of are:

1) Tom Jones, psfonts
2) Tom Rick. (with dvips), psfonts
3) psnfss, pnfss.sup and times.sty


2) Tom R.'s psfonts does not appear to be as general as the other two in  
that 1 and 3 correct for x heights and have conv. macros for change to  
entire font families quickly.


Help!


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Gregory Lampshire 
Virginia Tech
Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering
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