hyperref and \verb

[Fernando Gouvea]

I am working on a book, and the publisher has just (as I was finishing) 
asked me to use \hyperref to make links active on the electronic 
version. Adding \usepackage{hyperref} and making no other changes, I get 
a new error message:

> ! LaTeX Error: \verb illegal in command argument.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...
This happens because I used something like \verb|Qp| in a footnote. 
Despite the error message, the resulting pdf looks ok. Of course, I 
haven't actually tried using any hyperref functionality yet. Can anyone 
explain what is going on?

Thanks,

Fernando

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