[XeTeX] Package conflict

[Nathan Sidoli]

Thanks Andrew for dealing with this, and thanks to Ulrike for the quick fix.

Best,

Nathan

On 11/06/11 21:51, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:28:58 +0900 schrieb Nathan Camillo Sidoli:
>
>> There seems to be a conflict with the loading order of packages mathspec
>> and arabxetex, which both require amsmath.
>>
>> The mathspec package will ask for amsmath to be loaded first, but the
>> arabxetex will load amsmath because it needs the \overline macro.
> actually arabxetex only ask for amsmath, it will not load it if has
> been already loaded.
>
>> The mathspec package must be loaded first, because it will call in
>> fontspec, which must be loaded before arabxetex.
>>
>> If arabxetex is loaded after mathspec, however, irregardless of whether
>> or not amsmath is loaded, I get the following error:
>>
>> ----
>>
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/arabxetex/arabxetex.sty
>>
>> ! Package mathspec Error: `amsmath' must be loaded earlier than `mathspec'.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? (I'm using an up-to-date TeX
>> Live 2010 distribution.)
>
> The test in mathspec is logical wrong. It hacks \RequirePackage (not
> a good idea anyway at my opinion) to throw an error if its argument
> is "amsmath" but it doesn't disable this hack if amsmath has been
> loaded correctly before mathspac.
>
> mathspec should better test at the begin of the document if amsmath
> has been loaded after mathspec and then throw an error.
>
> You can disable the wrong test like this:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{mathspec}
> \makeatletter
> %\let\RequirePackage\original at RequirePackage %uncomment
> \makeatother
> \usepackage{arabxetex}
>
>
> \begin{document}
> abc
> \end{document}
>