The package marvosym seems to clash with the moderncv class. What can I do?

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I would like to use both the marvosym package and the moderncv package. LaTeX throws an error that \fax was already defined. While this isn't a problem on MikTeX, I'm currently editing a joint document on http://writelatex.com which will not proceed to compile the document.

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score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 29 '22 at 23:26

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Is this a problem with the native \fax command, or a problem with \fax existing in both of the the two libraries? The solution below assumes the latter, but can be modified for the former.

This pattern might help you:

\usepackage{savesym}
\usepackage{moderncv}
\savesymbol{fax}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\restoresymbol{MARV}{fax}

It should restore the regular \fax command while providing that command from marvosym as MARVfax.

Here is another link about it. And here is a link to CTAN for savesym.

edited Sep 29 '22 at 23:26

David Carlisle

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answered Nov 20 '13 at 20:32

This works perfectly. – Nov 21 '13 at 00:55

The package marvosym seems to clash with the moderncv class. What can I do?

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