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Subject: Re: LaTeX question: \ref in \caption
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Date: 4 Jun 91 21:29:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.150330.21344@ecrc.de> marcus@ecrc.de (Marcus Clemente)
writes:
>Hello,
>
>I want to refer to a figure in the caption of another figure.>\caption{another
example of figure \ref{example}}

Protect it: \protect\ref{example}