[XeTeX] xyling.sty compatibility with Xelatex

[Alan Munn]

At 10:23 AM +0100 1/9/09, Pavel Stranak wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am just typesetting a paper that draws trees using macros \B and \K 
>from xyling.sty.
>It works fine in latex, but in xelatex I get errors while processing 
>xyling saying that the macros \B and \T are already defined. Then the 
>edges in a tree are not drawn (thats what \B and \K are for).
>
>Renaming the macros in the xyling.sty and in the paper helps, but I 
>wonder whether there is a solution that would make xyling really
>compatible with xelatex.

This IS the solution, unfortunately.  When two packages use the same 
command names, one of them has to change them.  xunicode.sty defines 
both \T and \B; either it changes or xyling changes.  Should it 
change its names or should xyling?  Who decides?

Perhaps since the commands in xunicode.sty are not intended as user 
commands, whereas those in xyling are,  they should be changed in 
xunicode. I don't know if there's a set protocol for this sort of 
situation.

Alan

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