On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:17:47 +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote:

Hi Stephan,

> the attached example with xinitials works as long as neither graphicx
> nor xcolor is used.  Loading any of those packages (and possibly others)
> causes LaTeX to stop with an error, see below.  In slides from TUG99 I  
> read:
>
>> LATEX2e* is a collection of packages that run on top of LATEX2e

Frank explained a bit about what this is but forgot to mention that you  
can access the experimental code by following the instructions at  
<http://www.latex-project.org/code.html>. Quite a lot has happened to some  
areas comparing to the code included in TeX Live - for example the expl3  
code has tripled in size. In December 2006 we released a snapshot of expl3  
and xbase and put it on ctan but unfortunately this didn't make it into  
the most recent TeX Live. The next TeX Live version will have newer  
editions of all previously released experimental code.


>>  *File List*
>>  article.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>>   size10.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>> mathpazo.sty    2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a Palatino w/ Pazo Math (D.Puga,  
>> WaS)
>> graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
>>   keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
>> graphics.sty    2006/02/20 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
>>     trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
>> graphics.cfg    2005/12/29 v1.2 MiKTeX 'graphics' configuration
>>   pdftex.def    2007/04/17 v0.04g Graphics/color for pdfTeX
>> xinitials.sig    2000/01/28 v0.1h templates for initials
>> xinitials.sty    2000/01/28 v0.1h templates for initials
>> template.sty    1999/09/28 v0.14 template parsing (DPC,FMi)
>> ldcsetup.sty    1999/09/10 v0.04 coding conventions and stuff
>>     calc.sty    2005/08/06 v4.2 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
>>  galley2.sty    2000/01/27 v0.2s galley structures
>>      xhj.sty    2000/01/14 v0.3c hyphenation & justification
>>   xparse.sty    1999/09/10 v0.17 generic document command parser
>>  ot1pplj.fd    2004/09/06 font definitions for OT1/pplj.
>> supp-pdf.tex
>>  ***********

For comparison here is the file list I get when compiling the example  
using both xcolor and graphicx and using the up-to-date expl3 and  
xpackages (including the bug fix for xinitials).

  *File List*
  article.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
   size10.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
mathpazo.sty    2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a Palatino w/ Pazo Math (D.Puga, WaS)
   xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
    color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
   pdftex.def    2007/01/08 v0.04d Graphics/color for pdfTeX
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
   keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty    2006/02/20 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
     trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 graphics configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
xinitials.sig    2007/08/14 v604 Producing initial characters
xinitials.sty    2007/08/14 v604 Producing initial characters
  l3names.sty    2006/11/21 v577 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX  
Primitive
s
template.sty    2007/05/09 v588 template
ldcsetup.sty    2006/08/21 v574 coding conventions and stuff
   l3calc.sty    2007/08/14 v605 L3 Experimental calc module
    l3int.sty    2007/06/11 v599 L3 Experimental Integer module
    l3num.sty    2007/06/10 v596 L3 Experimental token numbers
  l3expan.sty    2007/06/10 v593 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
    l3tlp.sty    2007/06/16 v602 L3 Experimental Token List Pointers
l3basics.sty    2007/05/09 v587 L3 Experimental basic definitions
   l3skip.sty    2006/08/21 v573 L3 Experimental skip registers
    l3prg.sty    2007/06/08 v592 L3 Experimental control structures
  l3quark.sty    2006/08/21 v573 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3toks.sty    2006/11/26 v580 L3 Experimental Token Registers
    l3box.sty    2007/06/11 v600 L3 Experimental Box module
   xparse.sty    2006/08/21 v574 generic document command parser
    l3seq.sty    2006/08/21 v573 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3token.sty    2007/06/10 v595 L3 Experimental token investigation and  
manipul
ation
  l3clist.sty    2006/08/21 v573 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
  galley2.sty    2006/08/21 v574 Galley module
      xhj.sty    2006/08/21 v574 Templates for galley mechanism
  ot1pplj.fd    2004/09/06 font definitions for OT1/pplj.
supp-pdf.tex
  ***********

Cheers,
-- 
Morten