[l2h] Fails to number figures: bogus "arguments too complex" erro r.

[Ross Moore]

Hi John,

On 20/10/2005, at 7:59 PM, John Blackburn wrote:

> The commands
>
>
>> \newcommand{\rms}{{\protect\footnotesize rms}\protect~}
>> \newcommand{\peak}{{\protect\footnotesize peak}\protect~}
>>
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> do not work either.

Yes, OK.

It is only the \footnotesize  that is causing the problem.
Replace it with \small , \tiny, \Large, \scriptsize, etc.
and it should work fine (with the \protect ).


Now here's why:

When the .aux file is read, each line is filtered through coding
that includes these lines (from the  latex2html  Perl script):

                     #footnote markers upset the numbering
                     s/\\footnote(mark|text)?//g;

This matches, so removes, the \footnote but leaves 'size' behind,
as if part of the caption text.

Here's a simple fix:

Replace the latter line by:

                     s/\\footnote(mark|text)?\b//g;

where \b denotes *word boundary*.

Now my advice about using \protect  should always work
with figure/table-captions.



>
> Here is the smallest LaTeX file which shows the bug

Thanks. This helped me build up examples to isolate
and trap this pesky bug.



Hope this helps,

     Ross

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