Bug#179339: marked as done (pxfonts.sty doesn't cooperate with AMS LaTeX)
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Subject: pxfonts.sty doesn't cooperate with AMS LaTeX
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Package: pxfonts
Version: 1.0+1-5
Severity: normal
pxfonts.sty and amsmath.sty both define some font symbols (like \iint), and
they both use \newcommand for it. As a result, independent of the order in
which the packages are loaded, \newcommand complains that a command is
already defined. (One cannot simply omit amsmath.sty since it defines more
than just font symbols.)
As a workaround, I load psfonts.sty first and then write:
\let\oldnewcommand=\newcommand
\let\newcommand=\providecommand
\usepackage{amsmath}
\let\newcommand=\oldnewcommand
This way, in amsmath.sty, all definitions of a control sequence that already
exists, are ignored. A better method would be, of course, if pxfonts.sty
defined the conflicting symbols with \def instead of \newcommand. This would
make it possible to load pxfonts.sty after amsmath.sty and let it overwrite
the symbol definitions.
(The whole thing is of course an upstream issue. But I want to document it
ad provide a workaround.)
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux daedalus 2.2.19pre17 #1 Tue Mar 13 22:37:59 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1
Versions of packages pxfonts depends on:
ii gsfonts 6.0-2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpre
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20011202-2 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-bin 1.0.7+20011202-7.1 teTeX binary files
ii txfonts 3.1+2-7 Times-likes font for TeX.
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:23:40 +0100
From: Markus Redeker <cep@ibp.de>
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Subject: pxfonts bug
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I consider this bug to be fixed.
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