Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 06:32:36PM +0100, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:33:22 + schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > > >> It may be that polyglossia is more careful about re-defining commands. > > > > As I said, polyglossia isn't the package that defines that command, > > neither i

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:33:22 + schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: >> It may be that polyglossia is more careful about re-defining commands. > > As I said, polyglossia isn't the package that defines that command, > neither is dialogue. It could be interesting to investigate in more > details but I

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> It may be that polyglossia is more careful about re-defining commands. As I said, polyglossia isn't the package that defines that command, neither is dialogue. It could be interesting to investigate in more details but I really don't have the time right now. (And last time I did that kind of

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Philip Taylor
Herbert Schulz wrote: > It may be that polyglossia is more careful about re-defining commands. I don't speak LaTeX, Herb, but I would be interested to know if in addition to \newcommand, \renewcommand, etc., there is something along the lines of \defineunlessincompatible that would c

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Herbert Schulz
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > > Hi, > > --- On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Herbert Schulz > wrote: > | Load the polyglossia package after the dialogue package. > | Sometimes the order of loading makes a difference. Howdy, It may be that polyglossia is more careful

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: | Load the polyglossia package after the dialogue package. | Sometimes the order of loading makes a difference. \-- Out of curiosity, why does this work? Shouldn't this also complain with the same error? SK -- Shakthi Kannan http:

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Herbert Schulz
> On Feb 10, 2016, at 11:57 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to use the "dialogue" package with XeTeX, and I hit the > following error: > > === BEGIN === > > ... > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/frankenstein/dialogue.sty > (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fra

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-11 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: | Or just load dialogue before polyglossia. \-- Thanks. That worked! SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: htt

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-10 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Sure, just write > > \let\providelength\relax > > before the second package is loaded. Or just load dialogue before polyglossia. For what it's worth, none of these packages define \providelength themselves, they're defined in packages they include. Best, Arthur

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-10 Thread Will Robertson
On 11 Feb 2016, at 4:27 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > > ! LaTeX Error: Command \providelength already defined. > Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual. How ironic… it should have been defined with \providecommand in both cases! (If they both behave identically, which I gue

[XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

2016-02-10 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, I am trying to use the "dialogue" package with XeTeX, and I hit the following error: === BEGIN === ... (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/frankenstein/dialogue.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/frankenstein/blkcntrl.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/frankenstein/m