Bug#428954: texlive-lang-german: Using packages "german" and "mathdesign" together results in an error
Michael Kaaden wrote:
> Package: texlive-lang-german
> Version: 2007.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: normal
>
>
> I wanted to typeset a (german) document using the Utopia font. So, ich
> added '\usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}' to my preamble, executed 'latex
> mydocument.tex' and was baffled by an error '! Missing number, treated
> as zero.' (see minimal input file).
Most likely the problem is that german.sty makes the " active, so that it
no longer has its usual meaning. Not all LaTeX style packages can cope
with that. Even bm.sty, which is an official package from the tools
collection, does not like this (there is a long standing bug report in the
LaTeX BTS about this). Possible solutions are using babel via
\usepackage[german]{babel}
insead of german.sty or switching the order of loading german.sty and
mathdesign.sty.
cheerio
ralf
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