unofficial-uoregon-dissertation-formats / unofficial-uoregon-grad-school-dissertation-latex-markdown-apa-format

A dissertation LaTeX stylesheet with Markdown support for the University of Oregon using APA format (This repository is not officially associated with the University of Oregon).
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Unable to import gensymb, conflicts with \degree definition in uothesisapa.cls? #8

Closed tzcrawford closed 3 years ago

tzcrawford commented 4 years ago

I don't understand exactly what all is done exactly in uothesisapa.cls where general formatting is declared, but I believe \degree is manually defined here. If you add \usepackage{gensymb} elsewhere in the document (e.g. 0_uothesisapa_preamble.tex),pdflatexgives an error that \degree is already defined. In gensymb, this function would print the degree symbol (°).

I found a workaround in instead importing the textcomp package and using \textdegree function instead.

sampollard commented 3 years ago

This is an unfortunate annoyance. Another, more invasive fix would be to redefine uothesis as having uodegree instead of degree. I'm going to close this since you found a workaround.