{incompatibility} is for questions about packages and document classes that are not compatible with each other or that need to be loaded in a specific order.
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Is biblatex compatible with RevTeX?
biblatex seems to be not compatible with RevTeX. As RevTeX automatically loads natbib, I load biblatex with the option natbib=true, but still LaTeX compiler complains that lot of commands are already ...
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ntheorem and mathdesign are incompatible
I want to use mathdesign fonts (namely bitstream-charter) and I also want to use the ntheorem package. However, it looks like ntheorem tries to load amssymb which is incompatible with mathdesign (it ...
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Conflict between gantt.sty and \framebox{}
I've recently been using the Edward Tufte inspired style file (the handout option) for my documents and a Gantt chart package. However, if I put \usepackage{gantt} in my preamble it prevents some code ...
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lineno and syntax package incompatibilities
I'm using the syntax package from the mdwtools version 1996/05/17 1.07. I
successfully set the properties to show a grammar definition properly but then
when I try to combine it with the lineno ...
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Are all package loading conflicts due to conflicting identical control sequence names?
I just ran into a load-order conflict due to identical cs names and realized that this is the source of similar problems in the past that I've seen. Thinking about it, I can't imagine what other ...
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What's the right order when loading packages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Non-commutative packages
I remember reading in some reference guide that the order of loading packages with \usepackage in principle doesn't matter. Real life, however, ...
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titlesec versus titling; mangling \thetitle
I want to have the chapter name and title of the document appear in the header; I know how to do that with fancyhdr and titling, one of the miscellaneous functions of the latter is to preserve the ...
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Packages that need to be included in a specific order
This isn't a real question, so I'm marking it community wiki.
When I was new to LaTeX, I thought that the \usepackage command worked much like the #include command of the C language: just put ...
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xelatex and pgfpages compatibility
I've just switched from pdflatex to xelatex for my lectures to take advantage of the unicode-math package so that I can change the colours of all my mathematics. When compiling the "handout" version ...
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Should the fontenc package be loaded before or after font packages?
I seem to recall reading somewhere that fontenc should be loaded either before or after the packages loading fonts, but I cannot remember which. I don't see differences between loading it before and ...
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Possible conflicts with fixltx2e?
I only recently came across the fixltx2e package. Given that it patches aspects of LaTeX, my spidey-sense begins to tingle out of a concern for possible package conflicts.
Are there known conflicts? ...
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Why can't I use \newfloat more than once?
I've found the float package, which lets me specify \newfloat{program}{...} to get other named floats than Table and Figure. However, if I try to use this more than once, I get a cryptic error:
! You ...
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Which packages should be loaded after hyperref instead of before?
The hyperref documentation says: "Make sure it comes last of your loaded packages". The reason is that it redefines many LaTeX commands. It's a rule of thumb that helps to avoid errors.
However, ...
