On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Turns out amsfonts is installed as part of texlive-base. Which makes >> me angrier about the lack of error messages - would it kill LaTeX to >> have emitted an error message like 'you tried to use \Box, which is >> not imported but is available in the amsfonts package!' > > Strangely enough, my latex setup did give such an error when I use try to use > \Box: > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > (./tmp.tex > LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> > Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, > noh > yphenation, loaded. > (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls > Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class > (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./tmp.aux) > > ! LaTeX Error: Command \Box not provided in base LaTeX2e. > > See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. > Type H <return> for immediate help. > ... > > l.4 $\Box > $ > [1] (./tmp.aux) ) > (see the transcript file for additional information) > Output written on tmp.dvi (1 page, 152 bytes). > Transcript written on tmp.log.
What can I say? I provided the tmps, and I don't recall any such error in them. Perhaps Ubuntu changed something importing from Debian, or perhaps texlive is a different set of packages from Debian's TeX packages. -- gwern -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
