[XeTeX] Fontspec 1.8 problem?

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Fri Jul 15 14:39:17 CEST 2005


On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 12 Jul 2005, at 10:10 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Command `\colon' already defined.
>>
>> error with fontspec 1.8 & xunicode 0.5
>>
>
> Hi Herb,
>
> Sorry for not getting back to you quickly.
> How did I miss that? Silly me.
>
> For the fix that I'm sending into CTAN, I'm just removing the  
> offending line: (Stephen was correct in his analysis)
>
> %\DeclareMathSymbol{\colon}{\mathpunct}{legacymaths}{"3A}
>
> I think then that if you use fontspec (without the offending line)  
> and lucbmath without amsmath then \colon might give wrong output,  
> but I can't check because I don't have the lucida fonts set up  
> right now.
>
> So I'll silently update fontspec at CTAN, but it's probably easier  
> for you guys just to delete that line manually.
>
> Sorry for the hassle,
>
> Will
>

Howdy,

I did take Stephan's advice and it did work. It's nice know that the  
problem was treated rather than the symptom.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)




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