Two lines of 12-pt Times New Roman Bold in an otherwise standard document

Question

I need to able to write two short lines of bold, centered, 12-point Times New Roman in an otherwise standard document (I'm using the book class with the 11pt option). Can anyone help me?

Thoughts: Since I'm using latex + dvips + ps2pdf, it seems like the simplest way to handle this would be to write a small eps file and include it as a graphic. As a possible alternative, I seem to recall that there is some way to directly include postscript commands. Unfortunately, I am way out of my depth when it comes to writing postscript of any sort.

Answer 1

Why don't you just change locally the font to Times New Roman?

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\begin{document}
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
\begin{center}\fontfamily{ptm}\fontsize{12pt}{14pt}\selectfont\bfseries
Two lines of centered text\\in Times New Roman 12pt
\end{center}
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
\end{document}

If you really need the system font Times New Roman, you can easily access it with XeLaTeX:

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
\begin{center}\fontspec{Times New Roman}\fontsize{12pt}{14pt}\selectfont\bfseries
Two lines of centered text\\in Times New Roman 12pt
\end{center}
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
\end{document}

To use XeLaTeX, you may need to change a little your preamble (mainly things like \usepackage[...]{intputenc}) but everything which worked with dvips > ps2pdf should work with XeLaTeX.