[OS X TeX] Error with apacite in figure caption bug?

[Ross Moore]

Hello Alan,

On 26/03/2008, at 4:29 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the cross postings but I am having a frustrating time  
> with a persistent error with citations in captions in figure and  
> table environments.
>
> The input is more or less the same in each case:...
>
>  \caption{Work System Lifecycle: \emph{Source, adapted from~ 
> \citeauthor{Alter2002a}, \citeyearNP[p.~95]{Alter2002a}}.} \label 
> {fig:WorkSystemLifecycle}

I'd try
either (a) getting rid of the ~s
   or   (b) putting \protect~
and (c) putting \protect\cite....

e.g.,
  \caption{Work System Lifecycle: \emph{Source, adapted from\protect~ 
\protect\citeauthor{Alter2002a}, \protect\citeyearNP[p.\protect~95] 
{Alter2002a}}.} \label{fig:WorkSystemLifecycle}

>
> ... and each returns an error as below:
>
> ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \reserved at a.
> <to be read again>
>                    }
> l.101 ... \emph{Source~\cite[p.~93]{Alter2002a}}.}
>                                                    \label 
> {fig:WorkSystemFram...
>
> Any clues as to what I may be doing wrong or is this a bug?

\caption  needs to write its contents into a file.
You need to control how much is expanded.
The \emph  macro should be robust, but I doubt that ~ is,
and probably also not the \cite... macros.


>
> I am using TeXLive 2007 so if there is a newer version of apacite...

   I'd doubt that a newer version would help much.


>
> Cheers
> Alan


Hope this helps,

	Ross

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