Re: \usepackage[force]{textcomp} side effects for debiandoc-sgml

[Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 04:24:08PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:21:43PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > > - The first is to load the textcomp package with the "force" option:
> > >
> > > \usepackage[force]{textcomp}
> > >
> > >   But this might have other side effects; you'd have to carefully check
> > >   the rest of the document (I must admit that I don't understand the
> > >   sparse and not user-oriented documentation of the textcomp package,
> > >   which is only available after processing LaTeX's ltoutenc.dtx).
> > 
> > Since the force option only restores the behavior we had in teTeX-2.0.2,
> > and it has been checked that this gave correct output, we can safely use
> > [force]. 

debiandoc-sgml does no longer build Debian FAQ.

$ latex /tmp/error.tex
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
entering extended mode
(/tmp/error.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, ngerman, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/textcomp.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ts1enc.def))

! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `force' for package `textcomp'.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.4

$ cat /tmp/error.tex 
\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[force]{textcomp}

\begin{document}
End
\end{document}