Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr
From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How to do reference in caption env.?
Message-ID: <SPQR.90Jul28122800@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Jul 90 11:28:00 GMT
References: <7055.26af42fc@swift.cs.tcd.ie>
Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Organization: Southampton University Computer Science
Lines: 15
In-reply-to: wai@swift.cs.tcd.ie's message of 26 Jul 90 19:22:36 GMT

In article <7055.26af42fc@swift.cs.tcd.ie> wai@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes:

   \begin{figure}
   ...
   \caption{... \ref{ref:count}}
   \end{figure}

   TeX keeps complaining that there is an extra '}' in @caption ...

try reading the LaTeX book. it explains clearly (?) that you need a
\protect in front of \ref
--
Sebastian Rahtz                        S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
Computer Science                       S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)
Southampton S09 5NH, UK                S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp    (uucp)