Re: texlive-latex-extra : gmutils seems broken
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi,
> On Mo, 26 Mär 2012, Steven Le Roux wrote:
>> Since the last update few days ago, the gmutils packages (at least
>> gmbase.sty and gcommand.sty) seem broken. Depending on the compiler
>> you don't have the same issue, but here is a trace I got from XeTex
>> with gummi :
>
> Aemmmm, thanks for your document ... but it is well, complicated.
>
Yeah I know... sorry for that... it's a templating macro :)
> Can you provide a *minimal* exmaple? Looking at your code I see
> about several places that looks rather fishy, makeatletter, changing
> internal stuff, there is no guarantee that this works.
>
> Then, you are using about 35 different packages???
>
> It might be that some of these packages are not compatible.
>
> Please, send a *MINIMAL* document, and that means also minimal with
> repect to loaded packages, that exhibits this behaviour.
>
> Not all packages in the TeX world are compatible with each other,
> and your mixture seems to be really crazy.
it was working great before the update. But I noticed that removing
packages slashbox and gmeometric resolved the issue. (depending on
which compilater because XeTex still can't compile, but I use pdfTex
which works ok)
>
> BTW, I tried to find out where it might come from, but I really
> believe it comes from your horriblie mixture of packages.
> I couldn't nail it down, because it also depends on the engine
> one is using, so that is a very unclear problem.
You're probably right somewhere. Cleaning up 3 packages solved the
compilation, but it has worked once without conflict :)
Thx and sorry btw for this.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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