Bug#428954: texlive-lang-german: Using packages "german" and "mathdesign" together results in an error
On 15.06.07 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
> Michael Kaaden wrote:
Hi Michael,
> > 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.
>
Does this solve your problem?
H.
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