Times Newer Roman is a new font to make academic papers appear longer.
Times Newer Roman is designed to add length to any academic paper that has page requirements and also requires the use of Times New Roman.
[...] This means that a paper of given word count will have more length when rendered in Times Newer Roman instead of the old Times New Roman—hopefully without being noticeable to whoever's job it is to grade the paper.
Bigger and therefore better academic papers help advance the state of the art.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 20 2018, @06:09PM (1 child)
Unless I'm missing it, Times Newer Roman is licensed under the GPL. [timesnewerroman.com] Embedded fonts in digital documents should never make the document itself GPL. [wikipedia.org]
Either the font creators are evil geniuses or complete morons.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday September 21 2018, @02:36AM
The issue I am talking about is with requiring a student to use Times New Roman (the Microsoft-provided nonfree proprietary font) in preparing academic research when equivalent or higher-quality free fonts are available.
Times Newer Roman does indeed seem to be GPL and is not a problem in this respect. Sorry about the confusion between the names.