Well...it compiles, but doesn't produced the expected result :) (see
attached pdf, where's the footnote?)
Thanks,
Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Heck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Martes, 23 de Octubre de 2007 06:55 p.m.
To: Alexander Sklar
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: footnote in caption

Alexander Sklar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First of all, thanks to all the great people who make LyX J My thesis
would
> look terrible and be impossibly difficult to write without it J
>
> I don't know if this is a known bug  or not, but when I tried to insert a
> footnote inside a graphics float's caption, the file won't compile and
give:
>
> Argument of [EMAIL PROTECTED] has an extra }.
>
> Paragraph ended before [EMAIL PROTECTED] was complete.
>   
I'm pretty sure this isn't a LyX bug but a LaTeX limitation. It may be 
that \footnote needs to be \protected in this context, in which case it 
is a LyX bug. So you might try putting "\protect" in ERT immediately 
before the footnote, and see if that helps. If not, then it's a LaTeX issue.

rh

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