Phillip Helbig writes:
 > (author-prepared manuscripts for conference proceedings, journals,
 > making posters, overheads etc), what is needed which is not in the
 > `core' is psfrag, natbib, custom-bib.  Also, authors often need to
hmm. as discussed, "psfrag" is a disaster for almost everything except
immediate typesetting. i accept that you need something like it, but
i, _per se, is not a good thing to promote.

 > `\usepackage{times}'.  Whether or not that has the desired effect
 > depends on how the fonts are set up etc.

if \usepackage{times} has any effect other than the one I get when I
run it, i am very annoyed. it should NOT vary at all.

Sebastian