Times Newer Roman: cheat your teachers with this slightly wider font clone

[d_r]

I’m editor of an academic journal; we provide a LaTeX document class file to authors (which is not the final class file we use in publication), it is remarkable the extent to which authors will go to to circumvent the restrictions we try to impose. In some cases this does include using subtle font variants (eg, the lmodern package) which increase the spacing.

@knappa

Why would you do that? The abstract just says what the paper is about; it is the tl;dr. It isn’t the introduction.

Sometimes it is the only part of a paper not behind a paywall.

[jer_j_morris]

Yes, sadly. More often than you would think given that the students are all adults (though less often than my High School teacher friends have to deal with it - yeesh).

[Neovison.vison]

@AnthonyI

Ah yes, I can recall playing this game with my teacher. Bigger fonts, triple spacing after a sentence ends, slightly more than double spaced lines. All on a dot matrix printer. I was not an honor roll student.

@smut_clyde

…and subtly narrower sheets of paper.

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