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ID	313🔗
Submitted by:	Denis Bitouzé
Date:	2025-12-03 20:29:54
Last update:	2025-12-04 12:02:35
Status	Closed (Fixed)
Category	datatool
Version	3.4.2
Summary	Conflict if glossaries before datatool

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Description

I know:

datatool should be loaded before hyperref,
hyperref should be loaded before glossaries,

but, in case glossaries is loaded before datatool, the compilation fails because of:

! LaTeX Error: Control sequence \l__datatool_tmpa_tl already defined.

It would be nice if such an error could be avoided.

MWE

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage{datatool}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

Evaluation

The problem occurs when datatool-base is loaded before datatool (rather than implicitly during datatool loading) and glossaries loads datatool-base.

Fixed in v3.4.3. Please allow a few days for it to reach the TeX distributions.

Comments

1 comment.

🔗Comment from Denis Bitouzé
Date: 2025-12-04 12:38:48

Many thanks for the quick fix!

Replying to Comment #170:

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[em]emphasized text[/em]
[b]bold text[/b]
[url]web address[/url] [sup]superscript[/sup]
[sub]subscript[/sub]

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[li]first item[/li]
[li]second item[/li]
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[li]second item[/li]
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