Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!husc6!grabiner From: grabiner@zariski.harvard.edu (David Grabiner) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: doing a \ref{} in a \caption of a figure in LaTeX Message-ID: Date: 7 Nov 90 16:25:55 GMT References: <1232@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> <1990Nov4.203542.18675@csrd.uiuc.edu> <2419@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: /home/zariski/grabiner/.organization Lines: 25 In-reply-to: clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca's message of 5 Nov 90 19:05:06 GMT In article <2419@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> 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. The LaTeX manual itself doesn't seem to have things completely straight. Page 27: \\ is fragile. Page 62: The argument of the letter environment is a moving argument. Page 63: uses un-\protected \\ in the sample letter, without any comment. I haven't had any problems with un-\protected \\ in my letters, but I don't know whether I will have problems in some situation that hasn't happened yet. -- David Grabiner, grabiner@zariski.harvard.edu "We are sorry, but the number you have dialed is imaginary." "Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again." Disclaimer: I speak for no one and no one speaks for me...