g-brief redefines \Telefon symbol from marvosym.sty

[Dominik Holler]

looks like a bug of texlive
workaround:
cp cp /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty .
comment line 48:
%\newcommand\Telefon{\mvchr{84}}

produce bug:

cp /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra/latex/g-brief/beispiel.tex /tmp/
cd /tmp
latex beispiel.tex or pdflatex beispiel.tex
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
...
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty

! LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon 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.48 \newcommand\Telefon{\mvchr{84}}

?

[Thomas Hirsch (fwd-launchpad-20-ravn)]

The bug is originally in g-brief.cls, when using newer versions of the file marvosym.sty - the latter defines a symbol \Telefon which is re-defined in g-brief.

A simple bugfix is to comment out the first definition of \Telefon in g-brief as follows:

200
201 %%\def\Telefon#1{\def\telefon{#1}} \def\telefon{} <-- here
202 \def\Telefax#1{\def\telefax{#1}} \def\telefax{}
203 \def\Telex#1{\def\telex{#1}} \def\telex{}
204 \def\EMail#1{\def\email{#1}} \def\email{}
205 \def\HTTP#1{\def\http{#1}} \def\http{}
206

[Stephan Wienczny (stephan-wienczny)]

I can confirm the Bug and the Bugfix from Thomas Hirsch.

[Dominik Holler (dominik-holler)]

miktex 2.7 is also affected

[schnollk (schnollk)]

Confirming this bug and workaround suggested by Thomas Hirsch. Will alter affected packages to texlive-fonts-recommended and texlive-latex-extra (e.g. see [1] for a complete hardy package list containing g-brief) because of that.

Additional information:

- dragging this bug along for a long while (at least one year now) coming from windows miktex system, but never has been a problem so far besides the hassle of always getting the error message.

- another workaround is to comment out line 48 of /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty or better even change the command definition from "\Telefon" to "\Telef" (or any better undefined name). This would have to be reflected in acording documentation, of course; this is the command used by end users in actual .tex documents. Regardless of that "\mvchr{48}" should be possible to use anywhere.

Cheers.

system:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

$ dpkg -S marvosym.sty
texlive-fonts-recommended: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/marvosym/marvosym.sty

$ dpkg -S g-brief | grep -v 'doc'
tex4ht-common: /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/tex4ht/g-brief.4ht
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/g-brief
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/g-brief/g-brief2.sty
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/g-brief/g-brief2.cls
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/g-brief/g-brief.sty
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/g-brief/g-brief.cls

$ apt-show-versions texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended/hardy uptodate 2007-13
texlive-latex-extra/hardy uptodate 2007.dfsg.1-1

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=g-brief&mode=filename&suite=hardy&arch=any

[schnollk (schnollk)]

Well, maybe I misunderstand the package concept of launchpad. I didn't manage to change this bug's affecting packages as intended above. Anyway, the Ubuntu repos packages that are affected as far as I see it are

1. texlive-fonts-recommended (marvosym.sty)
2. texlive-latex-extra (g-brief)

Cheers.

[Stephan Wienczny (stephan-wienczny)]

This bug still applys to Ubuntu 8.10

[Hemanth (hemanth-hm)]

@schnollk
texlive-fonts-recommended (marvosym.sty) fixed the issue on 9.04 for libpoppler 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
kpathsea version 3.5.6