[OS X TeX] Conflict between dingbats and amssymb

[Matti Vallinkoski]

Hi Claus,

On 7.1.2009, at 22.38, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Enter at the beginning of the preamble \nonstopmode.
>
> Claus

Even this one worked. The [OS X TeX] mailing list saved me a lot of  
time, in looking in the wrong directions.


Matti



> On Jan 7, 2009, at 19:43, 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. 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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