[OS X TeX] Conflict between dingbats and amssymb

[Gary L. Gray]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Ross Moore wrote:

> 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}

I knew there would be an elegant solution. :-)

Thanks Ross!

-- Gary