Linguex: \makehandout doesn't work

Question

Putting \makehandout is supposed to extract the example sentences in Linguex, as described in the documentation (page 5). It is not working for me. Here is an minimal example:

\documentclass[12]{report}
\usepackage{linguex} 
\usepackage{linguho}
\usepackage{xyling}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
\title{My title}


\ex.\label{407}This is my test example

\makehandout
\end{document}

Answer 1

The problem is a clash between linguho and tikz.

The linguho package writes a few commands to a .han file, which is then \input. The issue is that it writes

\setlength {\pgf@nodesepstart }{0pt}
\setlength {\pgf@nodesepend }{0pt}

to the .han file but does not write \makeatletter and \makeatother to make TeX understand the macro names.

There are two possible solutions:

The first one, and less invasive, load tikz before linguho.

The second, independent of package order, is to patch linguho's commands to add \makeatletter and \makeatother:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd\makehandout
  {\input\jobname.han}
  {\makeatletter\input\jobname.han}
  {}{}
\patchcmd\resetExdefaults
  {\noexpand\resetExdefaults}
  {\noexpand\resetExdefaults\noexpand\makeatother}
  {}{}