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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: doing a \ref{} in a \caption of a figure in LaTeX
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clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin) writes:

>If people put as much energy in fixing \protect as they put
>in explaining it, we would have got rid of it ages ago.
>Even if you RTFM, you cannot understand what are fragile
>commands in moving arguments until you know quite a lot
>of TeX internal workings.
>Fortunately, the implementors of latex 2.10 are trying to remove it.

With the emphasis on trying! No definite solution has been reached yet.
There are a number of ways of going about the problem, but none
of them is easy, and it is not even certain if any is failsafe.
LL was not taking an easy way out when he added \protect
to LaTeX.

V.