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From: sharp@usceast.UUCP (Harry Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Problem with captions
Keywords: figure, captions, LaTeX
Message-ID: <3446@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 00:09:40 GMT
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Greetings!

    I recently tried using the figure environment in my Master's thesis
and it solved a problem I had been having with displaying code fragments.
However, I have uncovered a most unsettling problem while trying to caption
one of my figures.
    The problem is as follows:

    I am displaying a group of #define statements and wish to caption
my figure

		#defines for GOTO labels

with the #define in emphasized type {\em}.  
	\caption{\label {\em \#define}s for GOTO labels}

First, the #, even when escaped, causes TeX grief and an error message about 
a bad \csname-\endcsname pair.  When I remove the \#, I get a message
about a \protect should not appear between \csname and \endcsname.  I
looked \csname up in the TeXBook and was properly confused by the 
non-answer there.  My local TeX guru was equally confused by the TeX error
messages.
   I really need the # in my caption, more than I need the word `define'
emphasized,  so I would greatly appreciate any ideas on how to solve that
little problem.  The emphasis thing would be nice, but is not vital.
   Any ideas?

Harry Sharp
sharp@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu
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