[OS X TeX] Conflict between dingbats and amssymb

[Ross Moore]

Hi Gary and Matti,

On 08/01/2009, at 5:43 AM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Matti Vallinkoski wrote:
>
>> is there an easy solution to the following problem:
>> I want  to use some dingbats (\rightthumbsdown, \rightthumbsup,  
>> \leftthumbsup and\leftthumbsdown) with the amssymb fonts  
>> (especially \blacksquare and alike), but I keep getting the error  
>> message
>> !LaTeX Error: Command \checkmark already defined.
>>           Or name \end... illegal, see p. 192 of the manual.
>>
>> I have not found any solution by googling.
>>
>> Minimal example:
>> \documentclass{memoir}
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{dingbat}
>
> I will be interesting to see if there is an elegant solution to this.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\let\checkmark\relax
\usepackage{dingbat}



> When this has happened to me, I have copied the package containing  
> the defined symbol I do not want, renamed it, saved it in:
>
> ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex
>
> and then commented out that definition.
>
> -- Gary
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