Footnote inside figure caption causes LaTeX error

[Tore Haug-Warberg]

What I tried  was something like this:

![ [ <label> ][] ]( <file> "")

The error message generated from LaTeX was:

! Argument of \caption@ydblarg has an extra }.

This is a well-known problem in the LaTeX community, see e.g.:

 http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10181/using-footnote-in-a-figures-caption

The fix should not be too hard, but since I do not sit on top of the code I should be very careful making suggestive statements.

[Fletcher T. Penney]

Can you send me a real example of what you're trying to do? The
description in your subject line doesn't seem to match what you sent, so
I'm having trouble visualizing what's going on.

Thanks!


Fletcher

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[Tore Haug-Warberg]

I should make myself more clear. Here is a real example. The first line is meta data:

[linktext]: <file>.html  

Main text

Main text

![Caption text [linktext][] more caption text](<file>.jpg "")

more main text

more main text

It is the link inside the caption that is causing the problem. The reason is that it ends up as a footnote in the .tex file. My understanding is that footnotes need to be protected inside a caption.

[Fletcher T. Penney]

I understand.

I'll have to look into this, but it's a lower priority than many other
things for me at the moment in terms of MMD features/fixes.

It's true that the MMD syntax and parser accepts arbitrarily complex
nexted brackets (e.g. links within captions, etc.), but that doesn't
mean they are a good idea, or that they will work in all output formats.


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