On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:12:52AM +0000, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:09:09PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > 2) It is a good idea to always add the amsmath package when the user uses > > > math, even when no amsmath macros are used: > > > > Screaming NO. H***, what do you think I am talking about all the time? > > If the user does not want AMS, there would be no way to suppress this. > > Go to Documents->Extra, deselect "Use AMS Math". I don't understand your > point.
Whenever there was any macro that happened to be the name of a symbol from msa or msb, the user got AMS, no matter whether he wanted it or not. This is 232 forbidden names to be aware of when writing your preamble or when using "unsupported" packages. This happens e.g. for txfonts or wasysym. And the latter is even a package we officially claim to support! Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
