Many thanks, Martin. I see now that the bug is indeed present in Thomas Henlich's package on CTAN and that he has been contacted.
Thanks for the very useful glyphs! Best, Jan On Tuesday, May 11, 2010 03:52:51 am Martin Vogel wrote: > Jan, > > i just read about your pain with the biting Marvosym bug and feel sorry > that i obviously misunderstood Hilmars mail from March 2009. I thought > there was a patch and he considered to included it in the package so > everything was fine. > > If i knew how to apply the patch i could do that – but all i did was to > design the glyphs (in Truetype format, http://www.marvosym.de). The > whole Type-1-conversion and TeX-work was done by Thomas Henlich > (thomas.henl...@imm.tu-dresden.de, see > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/) more than ten > years ago. > > Maybe you can find someone else who knows how to fix the package > permanently? > > Martin > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: (fwd) Bug#467183: marvosym.sty: \MALE missing when compiled > with pdflatex > Datum: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:40:56 +0100 > Von: Hilmar Preusse <hill...@web.de> > An: m...@martinvogel.de > > > > Dear Martin, > > down here in the DBTS we got a bug report regarding your marvosym > package. Yesterday the submitter sent us a patch, which solved the > problem at least for me. Consider to include it. > > http://bugs.debian.org/467183 > > Thanks, > Hilmar
--- texlive-base-2007.dfsg.2/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty.orig 2009-03-26 13:11:30.000000000 -0400
+++ texlive-base-2007.dfsg.2/texmf-dist/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty 2009-03-26 13:11:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
\newcommand\HERMAPHRODITE{\mvchr{128}}
\newcommand\FEMALE{\mvchr{129}}
-\newcommand\MALE{\mvchr{130}}
+\newcommand\MALE{\mvchr{127}}
\newcommand\MaleMale{\mvchr{131}}
\newcommand\FemaleFemale{\mvchr{132}}
\newcommand\FemaleMale{\mvchr{133}}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\begin{document}
\verb|\Female|: \Female, \verb|\FEMALE|: \FEMALE,
\verb|\Male|: \Male, \verb|\MALE|: \MALE
\end{document}
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