General ⇒ Exceeding Latex

[Zelos]

I am trying on a project of mine and I use different packages, gb4e and xstring seem to really dislike each other because I get the exceed message when they are used togather, I have other packages I use but this is from a test document I made and it still fails. I have the same issue with color package. Any recomendations?

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{gb4e} 
\usepackage{xstring}

\def\ReplaceStr#1{%
  \IfSubStr{#1}{XY}{%
    \StrSubstitute{#1}{XY}{$\to$}}{#1}}
\begin{document}
\ReplaceStr{aXYbXYc}

\ReplaceStr{abc}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It works with changed package loading order:

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\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{gb4e}

Stefan

[Zelos]

oh my god, seriously? Why would the order matter? and yes it did work.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Sometimes a package uses the same internal macros as another package, or redefines one. This way there can be a conflict or a dependency. If this happens, it's often documented in the package manual.

I remember, that you posted the same question some months ago. Without an example it was hard to tell then. Now you posted a very good minimal example, so it was easy to test and to help within minutes. I tested an just tried with changing the loading order. Otherwise I would have tried loading etex or using lualatex.

Stefan