\square defined in amsfonts AND SIunits

Sven Utcke

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Mar 1, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/1/00

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Hi,

it seems that \square is defined in both amsfonts (presumably
generating a square box) and SIunits (generating a superscript 2). So
what should I do?

Here are the details:

(/net/kogs1/local/kogs1/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty)
(/home/utcke/TeX/inputs/SIunits.sty
Package: `SIunits' v0.02 <1998/10/09> (MH)

! LaTeX Error: Command \square already defined.
Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...

l.113 \newcommand*{\square}[1]{\power{#1}{2}}

)

with

%%% @LaTeX-file{
%%% filename = "amsfonts.dtx",
%%% version = "2.2e",
%%% date = "1997/09/17",
%%% time = "10:26:27 EDT",

and

%%% @LaTeX-package-file{
%%% author = "Heldoorn M.",
%%% version = "0.02",
%%% date = "09 October 1998",
%%% time = "12:00:00 MET",

Any ideas?

Thanks

Sven
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Marc Janssens

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Mar 1, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/1/00

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ut...@tu-harburg.de (Sven Utcke) wrote in
<vd0ln42...@kogs4.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>:

>it seems that \square is defined in both amsfonts (presumably
>generating a square box) and SIunits (generating a superscript 2). So
>what should I do?
>
>

>with

>
>%%% @LaTeX-package-file{
>%%% author = "Heldoorn M.",
>%%% version = "0.02",
>%%% date = "09 October 1998",
>%%% time = "12:00:00 MET",
>
>Any ideas?
>

Update to the current version (SIunits v0.06) and choose the desired behaviour
by using one of the options:

* amssymb : SIunits redefines the \square command;
* squaren : \square as in amssymb, \squaren can be used as a replacement

Bye,

Andreas zum Winkel

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Hi Sven,

read the readme.txt that comes with the SIunits package!

This is form it:
2. The amssymb package defines the \square command. Two possible
solutions to
avoid
conflicts:
- use option amssymb: \usepackage[amssymb]{SIunits}
When using this option the amssymb command \square is
redefined to the SIunits command.

- use option squaren: \usepackage[squaren]{SIunits}
When using this option the amssymb command \square is
not redefined. Use the newly defined SIunits command
\squaren to get the desired behaviour.

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Subject: \square defined in amsfonts AND SIunits

> Hi,

John Wingate

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Sven Utcke <ut...@tu-harburg.de> wrote:
> it seems that \square is defined in both amsfonts (presumably
> generating a square box) and SIunits (generating a superscript 2). So
> what should I do?

This conflict is mentioned in the SIunits documentation, subsections
6.2.1 and 7.2, and in the readme.txt file. There are two options to
deal with it:

\usepackage[amssymb]{SIunits} % use SIunits definition of \square

\usepackage[squaren]{SIunits} % define \squaren as replacement for
% SIunits \square, and retain AMS
% definition of \square

Load SIunits after the AMS package.

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James Kilfiger

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Mar 1, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/1/00

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Sven Utcke wrote:
>Hi,

>
>it seems that \square is defined in both amsfonts (presumably
>generating a square box) and SIunits (generating a superscript 2). So
>what should I do?

read SIunits.dvi
either use amssymb to SI units
(\usepackage[amssymb]{SIunits}) \square is redefined to the SIunits
defintion (load the ams package first)

or \usepackge[squaren]{SIunits} \square is not changed, and the SIunits
definition of square is accesible with \squaren

James