Our designer developed a cover using times and small caps. We tried to implement this in LaTeX but for reasons we do not understand the words come out longer in LaTeX.
Is there anything we can do about this?
There are any number of reasons to get differences. As has been noted in the comments there are many "Times" fonts (some more alike than others). Especially for small caps, some use designed small caps fonts, some just fake it by scaling full caps, and if so scale by different amounts. Finally the units may be different (a TeX point isn't the same as a PostScript one). It would be much easier to tell which of these is relevant here given the PDF rather than a PNG image however for a one-off cover sheet you don't really need to know why as you can force things to be (more) the same.
Just measure each line in your target document and if you want Phrase Structure
to be on one line and 15.2345cm wide then you can use
\resizebox{15.2345cm}{!}{Phrase Structure}
This needs graphicx
package of course.
david's answer sounds nice, but you don't want to reduce the size of the real caps, only the small ones. so things are more complicated.
i suggest measuring the height of the two different small cap "H"es
(no problems with optical overrun, since it's got a nearly "flat" top and bottom")
and scaling to a percentage. still needs the graphicx
package.
D\scalebox{.93}{anish} \scalebox{.93}{in}\\
H\scalebox{.93}{ead}-D\scalebox{.93}{riven}\\
P\scalebox{.93}{hrase} S\scalebox{.93}{tructure}\\
G\scalebox{.93}{rammar}
the .93 is only a wild guess! please measure!
actually, the scale factor applies to the horizontal measure, but i think it's safe to assume that the proportions of the various letters aren't all that different in the two renditions, and it's simpler to measure a vertical element. the same scaling factor will be applied both horizontally and vertically.
Da
looks suspiciously as if it has an inter-letter kern in the original. (Of course, you could put the spacing back in by hand, chosen to match the new relative sizes)
Jun 2, 2013 at 13:08
xelatex
andfontspec
to pick up the system font?