[Tugindia] Use of \rule in \caption

[E. Krishnan]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, mkalidoss wrote:

> To denote the legend,  I used
> \caption{\rule{2pt}{1cm}: From router to user}
>  in the figure environment.
> But this results in error.  


Can't understand what you're trying to achieve, but 

  \caption{\protect\rule{2pt}{1cm}: From router to user}

will overcome this problem. Be warned though, that this will result in the 
"rule" being included in any list of figures or tables that you may want 
TeX to generate.  

-- 
Krishnan