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From: dfr@usna.NAVY.MIL (Prof. David F. Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Formulas in captions
Message-ID: <329@usna.NAVY.MIL>
Date: 18 Apr 91 14:32:36 GMT
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Organization: U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
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In article <3B22F630B801102A@Post-Office.UH.EDU> BRONWEN@SBCCVM.BITNET (Bronwen Heuer) writes:
!I am helping a user who is using LaTeX and has a lot of mathematical
!characters in his captions.   Regardless of how many `protects' he
!inserts, there are some characters that will always bomb, eg. square
!root, cube root and two mathematical characters (curly brackets, etc)
!abutting  each  other.
! 
!Has anyone figured out a way around this fragile environment?
!Somethings will still crack even if you manually edit the LOF file.
! 
!Any suggestions?

Yes, use Plain TeX! Works fine. LaTeX is way to fragile for real work.

Dave Rogers